Verification of dynamic curves extracted from static handwritten scripts

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3773-3785

  Nel, Emli Mari ^a   du Preez, J A ^a   Herbst, B M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Automatic assessment; Document analysis; Document and text processing; Estimating pen trajectories of static scripts; Handwriting analysis; Pattern recognition; Stroke recovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ESTIMATION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; ESTIMATING PEN TRAJECTORIES OF STATIC SCRIPTS; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFOR MANCE COMPARISON; STATIC HANDWRITING; STROKE RECOVERY; TRAJECTORY ESTIMATION;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 49449099927     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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