Writer identification of Chinese handwriting documents using hidden Markov tree model

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1295-1307

  He, Zhenyu ^a   You, Xinge ^b   Tang, Yuan Yan ^a,b,c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese document; Hidden Markov tree model; Two dimensional Gabor model; Wavelet; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CHINESE DOCUMENT; HIDDEN MARKOV TREE MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GABOR MODEL; WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 36749060017     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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