Writer independent on-line handwriting recognition using an HMM approach

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-147

  Hu, Jianying ^a,b   Lim, Sok Gek ^a,c   Brown, Michael K ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Invariant features; N best decoding; Segmental features; UNIPEN

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); SEGMENTAL FEATURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033640902     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00043-6     Document Type: Article

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