HMM-based word spotting in handwritten documents using subword models

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3416-3419

  Fischer, Andreas ^a   Keller, Andreas ^a   Frinken, Volkmar ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT IMAGES; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; KEYWORD RETRIEVAL; ON DYNAMICS; SUBWORDS; SYSTEM-BASED; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; TRAINING SETS; WASHINGTON; WORD SPOTTING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE MATCHING; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 78149488081     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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