Language identification for handwritten document images using a shape codebook

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3184-3191

  Zhu, Guangyu ^a   Yu, Xiaodong ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Doermann, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Handwriting recognition; Language identification; Shape codebook; Shape descriptor

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; SHAPE CODEBOOK; SHAPE DESCRIPTOR;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 68249091393     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.12.022     Document Type: Article

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