Automatic segmentation of the IAM off-line database for handwritten english text

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 35-39

  Zimmermann, Matthias ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); TEXT LINES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BOUNDING BOX; GROUND TRUTH; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; WORD SEGMENTATION;

EID: 3042516077     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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