Cursive handwriting recognition using hidden Markov models and a lexicon-driven level building algorithm

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 332-339

  Procter, S ^a   Lllingworth, J ^a   Mokhtarian, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CURSIVE HANDWRITTING RECOGNITION; LEXICON-DRIVEN LEVEL BUILDING ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034245070     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20000476     Document Type: Article

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