Unsupervised writer style adaptation for handwritten word spotting

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rodríguez, José A ^a,b   Perronnin, Florent ^a   Sánchez, Gemma ^b   Lladós, Josep ^b  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; CODEBOOKS; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; SEMI-CONTINUOUS; WORD MODELING; WORD MODELS; WORD SPOTTING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 71249092047     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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