A robust model for on-line handwritten japanese text recognition

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-131

  Zhu, Bilan ^a   Zhou, Xiang Dong ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^b   Nakagawa, Masaki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Integrated segmentation and recognition; On line Japanese text recognition; Path evaluation; String recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASS PROBABILITIES; EVALUATION CRITERIA; F-MEASURE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; INTEGRATED SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION; INTEGRATION MODELS; JAPANESE TEXT; MODEL PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION; PATH LENGTH; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; ROBUST MODELS; TEXT LINES; VITERBI SEARCH;

OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 77953361089     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-009-0111-y     Document Type: Article

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