Combination of HMM-based classifiers for the recognition of Arabic handwritten words

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 959-963

  Al Hajj, Ramy ^a,b   Mokbel, Chafic ^a   Likforman Sulem, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COPYING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; VECTORS;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 51149089516     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4377057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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