Adaptation of an address reading system to local mail streams

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 872-876

  Brakensiek, Anja ^a   Rottland, Jörg ^b   Wallhoff, Frank ^a   Rigoll, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Siemens Dematic AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; POST OFFICES;

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TIED-MIXTURES; UPDATED USING; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 35048825729     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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