Ensemble methods to improve the performance of an english handwritten text line recognizer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4768 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 265-277

  Bertolami, Roman ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

HANDWRITTEN TEXT LINE RECOGNIZERS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SINGLE RECOGNIZERS; STATISTICAL COMBINATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 41549085083     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78199-8_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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