Off-line isolated handwritten Thai OCR using island-based projection with n-gram model and hidden Markov models

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-160

  Theeramunkong, Thanaruk ^a   Wongtapan, Chainat ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PAYAP UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Island based projection; n gram model; Thai character recognition

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); ISLAND-BASED PROJECTION; N-GRAM MODEL; THAI CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 4744347191     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.04.011     Document Type: Article

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