Off-line handwritten word recognition using multi-stream hidden Markov models

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-70

  Kessentini, Yousri ^a,b   Paquet, Thierry ^a   Ben Hamadou, AbdelMajid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Arabic script; Hidden Markov models; Information combination; Latin script; Multi stream; Off line handwriting recognition

Indexed keywords

ARABIC SCRIPT; INFORMATION COMBINATION; LATIN SCRIPT; MULTI-STREAM; OFF-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 70350622611     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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