Improving Chinese/english OCR performance by using MCE-based character-pair modeling and negative training

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 364-368

  Huo, Qiang ^a   Feng, Zhi Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BENCHMARK TESTS; CHARACTER LEVEL; CHARACTER MODELING; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION EFFICIENCY; RECOGNITION MODELS; RECOGNITION PROCESS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33748872397     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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