Enhancing training data for handwriting recognition of whiteboard notes with samples from a different database

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 550-554

  Liwicki, Marcus ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MERGING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITING SAMPLES; TRAINING DATA; UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITTEN TEXTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33847372828     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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