One-dimensional representation of two-dimensional information for HMM based handwriting recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 583-592

  Arica, N ^a   Yarman Vural, F T ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Directional skeletons; Handwriting; Hidden Markov Model; Isolated character recognition; Normalization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM) BASED HANDWRITING RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033747332     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(00)00023-4     Document Type: Article

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