Off-line recognition of handwritten Arabic words using multiple hidden Markov models

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 75-79

  Alma'adeed, Somaya ^a   Higgins, Colin ^a   Elliman, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic; Handwritten; Hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ARABIC; HANDWRITTEN; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); TRANSCRIPTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 3242722185     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2004.03.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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