A variational Bayes method for handwritten text line segmentation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 436-440

  Yin, Fei ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT IMAGES; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; MIXTURE DENSITY MODELS; NEW APPROACHES; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; TEXT LINES; VARIATIONAL BAYES; VARIATIONAL-BAYES METHOD;

EID: 71249157740     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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