Ensemble methods for handwritten text line recognition systems

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2334-2339

  Bertolami, Roman ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Classifier Ensemble Methods; Handwritten Text Line Recognition; Hidden Markov Model; Statistical Language Model

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLE METHODS; HANDWRITTEN TEXT LINE RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944450744     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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