An HMM-based approach for off-line unconstrained handwritten word modeling and recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 752-760

  El Yacoubi, A ^a   Gilloux, M ^a   Sabourin, R ^a   Suen, C Y ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Handwriting modeling; Hidden markov models; Preprocessing; Rejection; Segmentation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); OFFLINE UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITTEN WORDS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032644368     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.784288     Document Type: Article

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