Offline loop investigation for handwriting analysis

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-209

  Steinherz, Tal ^a   Doermann, David ^b   Rivlin, Ehud ^c   Intrator, Nathan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contours; Handwriting analysis; Shape

Indexed keywords

CONTOURS; GROUND TRUTH; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; OFFLINE; REALISTIC DATA; SHAPE; SIGNATURE VERIFICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DOCUMENTATION; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 62249209609     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.68     Document Type: Article

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