Word extraction associated with a confidence index for online handwritten sentence recognition

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 945-966

  Quiniou, Solen ^a   Bouteruche, François ^a   Anquetil, Eric ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence index; On line sentence recognition; Segmentation hypothesis generation; Word extraction; Word graph

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INDEX; ON-LINE SENTENCE RECOGNITION; SEGMENTATION HYPOTHESIS GENERATION; WORD EXTRACTION; WORD GRAPH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 69249140716     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001409007442     Document Type: Article

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