Automatic writer identification using connected-component contours and edge-based features of uppercase western script

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 787-798

  Schomaker, Lambert ^a   Bulacu, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connected component contours; Edge orientation features; Stochastic allograph emission model; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EDGE DETECTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EDGE ORIENTATION FEATURE; STOCHASTIC ALLOGRAPH EMISSION MODEL; WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMETRY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 3042527190     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.18     Document Type: Article

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