Arabic handwriting recognition using baseline dependant features and hidden Markov modeling

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 893-897

  El Hajj, Ramy ^a,b   Likforman Sulem, Laurence ^c   Mokbel, Chafic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BASELINE DEPENDANT FEATURES; CHARACTER PRE-SEGMENTATION; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT FEATURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33645142990     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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