Unsupervised HMM adaptation using page style clustering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1091-1095

  Cao, Huaigu ^a   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Natarajan, Premkumar ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PEN-PRESSURE; TRAINING DATA; TWO STAGE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 71249134099     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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