Improvements in BBN's HMM-based offline Arabic handwriting recognition system

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 773-777

  Saleem, Shirin ^a   Cao, Huaigu ^a   Subramanian, Krishna ^a   Kamali, Matin ^a   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ARABIC SCRIPTS; ARABIC TEXTS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; FREE FLOWING; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; OFFLINE; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; WORD ERROR RATE;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 71249089129     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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