Nastaaligh handwritten word recognition using a continuous-density variable-duration HMM

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1 B, 2005, Pages 95-118

  Safabakhsh, Reza ^a   Adibi, Peyman ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arabic; CDVDHMM; Cursive; Farsi; Handwritten; HMM; Nastaaligh; OCR; Segmentation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; VECTORS;

ARABIC; CDVDHMM; CURSIVE; FARSI; HANDWRITTEN; HMM; NASTAALIGH; SEGMENTATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 21244473691     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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