Duration models for arabic text recognition using hidden markov models

2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation, CIMCA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 838-843

  Slimane, Fouad ^a,b   Ingold, Rolf ^b   Alimi, Adel M ^a   Hennebert, Jean ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION; ARABIC TEXTS; DURATION MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL TOOLKITS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; WORD IMAGES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 70449578290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIMCA.2008.229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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