HMM-based system for transcribing Chinese handwriting

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2007

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 3412-3417

  Su, Tong Hua ^a   Zhang, Tian Wen ^a   Qiu, Zhao Wen ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Optical character recognition; Sliding window

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

CHINESE CHARACTERS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; SLIDING WINDOWS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 38049018570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLC.2007.4370738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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