Text line and word segmentation of handwritten documents

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3169-3183

  Louloudis, G ^a   Gatos, B ^b   Pratikakis, I ^b   Halatsis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture modeling; Handwritten document image analysis; Hough transform; Text line segmentation; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE EVALUATION; CONNECTED CHARACTERS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DATA SETS; DISTANCE METRICS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; FALSE ALARMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING; GROUND TRUTH; HANDWRITING SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOVEL METHODS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; POST PROCESSING; SKELETONIZATION; TEST SETS; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; TEXT LINES; WORD SEGMENTATION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIXTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 68249128236     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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