HMM-based recognizer with segmentation-free strategy for unconstrained Chinese handwritten text

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 133-137

  Su, Tong Hua ^a   Zhang, Tian Wen ^a   Huang, Hu Jie ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 51149096206     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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