Gabor features for offline Arabic handwriting recognition

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 53-58

  Chen, Jin ^a   Cao, Huaigu ^b   Prasad, Rohit ^b   Bhardwaj, Anurag ^c   Natarajan, Prem ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic handwriting recognition; Feature extraction; Gabor Filtering

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; BINARIZATIONS; CLASSIFICATION ERROR RATE; DOCUMENT IMAGES; GABOR FEATURE; GABOR FILTERING; GRAPH FEATURES; GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; HANDWRITTEN IMAGES; HIGH QUALITY; OFFLINE; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; REAL-WORLD; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SHAPE CHARACTERISTICS; SUBWORDS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77954987539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1815330.1815337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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