Recognition of handwritten Arabic alphabet via hand motion tracking

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 346, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-189

  Assaleh, Khaled ^a   Shanableh, Tamer ^a   Hajjaj, Husam ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Classification; Motion analysis and feature extraction; Online Arabic handwriting recognition; Vision based recognition system

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE CODING; MARKOV PROCESSES; RADON; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALPHABET RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; FEATURE VECTORS; HAND MOTION TRACKING; HAND MOVEMENTS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LOW-PASS FILTERING; MOTION ANALYSIS AND FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOTION INFORMATIONS; ONLINE ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; ONLINE VIDEOS; RADON TRANSFORMATIONS; RECOGNITION RATES; SPATIAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; VISION-BASED RECOGNITION SYSTEM; ZONAL CODING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 59849114638     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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