A hidden Markov model based segmentation and recognition algorithm for chinese handwritten address character strings

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 590-594

  Fu, Qiang ^a   Ding, X Q ^a   Liu, C S ^a   Jiang, Yan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MERGING; SEMANTICS;

CHARACTER STRINGS; IMAGE SERIES; OPTIMAL MERGING; SEMANTIC INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33750940721     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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