A model of on-line handwritten Japanese text recognition free from line direction and writing format constraints

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1815-1822

  Nakagawa, Masaki ^a,b   Zhu, Bilan ^a,c   Onuma, Motoki ^a,c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Information and Communication Sciences ^*  (Japan)

^c TUAT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; On line recognition; Probabilistic model; Segmentation; Writing constraint

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; TEXT PROCESSING;

ON-LINE RECOGNITION; PROBABILISTIC MODEL; SEGMENTATION; WRITING CONSTRAINT;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 26044439972     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.8.1815     Document Type: Article

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