An omni-font HTK-based arabic recognition system

Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 317-321

  Al Qahtani, S A ^a   Khorsheed, M S ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic OCR; Computer Vision; HTK; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Man Machine Interfaces

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ARABIC OCR; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); IMAGE SMOOTING; TEXT LINE IMAGE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10444251061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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