Writer adaptation for online handwriting recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-346

  Connell, Scott D ^a,b   Jain, Anil K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Lexemes; Online handwriting; Writer adaptation; Writing style modeling

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LEXEMES; ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; WRITER-DEPENDENT SYSTEM; WRITER-INDEPENDENT WRITING STYLE MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036522405     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.990135     Document Type: Article

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