Lexicon reduction using dots for off-line Farsi/Arabic handwritten word recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 724-734

  Mozaffari, Saeed ^a   Faez, Karim ^a   Märgner, Volker ^b   El Abed, Haikal ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete hidden Markov model; Dot extraction; Lexicon reduction; Off line Farsi Arabic handwritten word recognition; String matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

DISCRETE HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; STRING MATCHING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 39949084467     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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