Off-line writer identification using Gaussian Mixture Models

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 992-995

  Schlapbach, Andreas ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaussian Mixture Model; Off line handwriting; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; OFF-LINE HANDWRITING; WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 34147140426     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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