HMMs with explicit state duration applied to handwritten Arabic word recognition

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 897-900

  Benouareth, Abdallah ^a   Ennaji, Abdellatif ^b   Sellami, Mokhtar ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VITERBI ALGORITHM; WORD PROCESSING;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HANDWRITING; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 34047240347     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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