A probabilistic method for keyword retrieval in handwritten document images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3374-3382

  Cao, Huaigu ^a   Bhardwaj, Anurag ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Information retrieval; Word spotting

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; EXISTING METHOD; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; IMAGE FEATURES; KEYWORD RETRIEVAL; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; WORD SEGMENTATION; WORD SPOTTING;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROBABILITY;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 68249119215     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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