Handwritten document image segmentation into text lines and words

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 369-377

  Papavassiliou, Vassilis ^a,b   Stafylakis, Themos ^a,b   Katsouros, Vassilis ^a   Carayannis, George ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Document image processing; Handwritten text line segmentation; Handwritten word segmentation; Support vector machines; Viterbi estimation

Indexed keywords

CONNECTED COMPONENT; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING; GAP METRICS; HANDWRITING SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN WORD SEGMENTATION; LINE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR SVM; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; TEXT LINES; VITERBI ESTIMATION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

VITERBI ALGORITHM;

EID: 68949163219     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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