Confidence-scoring post-processing for off-line handwritten-character recognition verification

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 278-282

  Pitrelli, John F ^a   Perrone, Michael P ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONFIDENCE SCORE; DIGIT RECOGNITION; FALSE REJECTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SCORING FUNCTIONS; SCORING TECHNIQUES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745522984     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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