Integrated handwriting recognition and interpretation using finite-state models

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 519-539

  Toselli, A H ^a   Juan, A ^b   Gonzalez J ^b   Salvador, I ^b   Vidal, E ^b   Casacuberta, F ^b   Keysers, D ^c   Ney, H ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition and interpretation; Hidden Markov models; Preprocessing and feature extraction; Stochastic finite state transducers; Tangent vectors

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REDUNDANCY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HARDWRITING RECOGNITION AND INTERPRETATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PREPROCESSING AND FEATURE EXTRACTION; STOCHASTIC FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS; TANGENT VECTORS;

DECODING;

EID: 3142747488     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001404003344     Document Type: Article

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