An implicit segmentation-based method for recognition of handwritten strings of characters

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 836-840

  Cavalin, Paulo Rodrigo ^a   De Souza Britto Jr , Alceu ^b   Bortolozzi, Flávio ^a   Sabourin, Robert ^c   Oliveira, Luiz E Soares ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES;

HANDWRITTEN STRINGS; IMPLICIT SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33751026721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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