Confidence modeling for handwriting recognition: Algorithms and applications

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-46

  Pitrelli, John F ^a   Subrahmonia, Jayashree ^a,b   Perrone, Michael P ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence scoring; Handwriting recognition; Multi pass recognition; Online recognition; Recognition verification; Rejection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645553697     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-005-0011-8     Document Type: Article

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