Writer adaptation techniques in off-line cursive word recognition

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 287-291

  Vinciarelli, Alessandro ^a   Bengio, Samy ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; ADAPTED SYSTEMS; BENCHMARK DATABASE; CURSIVE SCRIPT RECOGNITION; CURSIVE WORD; LOWER BOUNDS; MIXED DATABASE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 18044386042     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2002.1030924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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