On-line Arabic handwriting recognition system based on visual encoding and genetic algorithm

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-170

  Kherallah, M ^a   Bouri, F ^a   Alimi, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Arabic script; Beta elliptical representation; Stroke overlapping; Visual encoding; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DEVICES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FUNCTION EVALUATION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ARABIC SCRIPT; BETA-ELLIPTICAL REPRESENTATION; STROKE OVERLAPPING; VISUAL ENCODING; WORD RECOGNITION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 58249085801     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2008.05.010     Document Type: Article

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