A writer identification system for on-line whiteboard data

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2381-2397

  Schlapbach, Andreas ^a   Liwicki, Marcus ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture models; On line handwriting; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS (GMM); ON-LINE HANDWRITING; UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL (UBM); WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 41549099613     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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