ICDAR 2009-Arabic handwriting recognition competition

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-13

  Abed, Haikal El ^a   Märgner, Volker ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabic handwritten word recognition; Competition; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION COMPETITION; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; DATA SETS; EVALUATION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; IFN/ENIT-DATABASE; RECOGNITION RATES; RESEARCH CENTER; RESEARCH GROUPS; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

COMPETITION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79952101116     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-010-0117-5     Document Type: Article

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