Segmentation of connected arabic characters using hidden markov models

2004 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurements Systems and Applications, CIMSA

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 115-119

  Gouda, Alaa M ^a   Rashwan, M A ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Character Segmentation; Cursive Script; HMM; OCR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CURSIVE SCRIPT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); RECOGNITION-BASED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 16244395144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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