Off-line recognition of realistic Chinese handwriting using segmentation-free strategy

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-182

  Su, Tong Hua ^a   Zhang, Tian Wen ^a   Guan, De Jun ^a   Huang, Hu Jie ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese handwriting recognition; Classifier combination; Hidden Markov Model; Optical character recognition; Segmentation free strategy; Sliding window

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KETONES; MARKOV PROCESSES;

CHINESE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SEGMENTATION-FREE STRATEGY; SLIDING WINDOW;

VITERBI ALGORITHM;

EID: 51649086835     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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