On-line Arabic handwriting recognition competition

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-23

  Abed, Haikal El ^a   Kherallah, Monji ^b,c   Märgner, Volker ^a   Alimi, Adel M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Competition; On line Arabic handwriting recognition; System evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION COMPETITION; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; RECOGNITION RATES; SYSTEM EVALUATION; TRAINING DATA SETS;

COMPETITION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79952106573     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-010-0124-6     Document Type: Article

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