Offline handwritten Arabic cursive text recognition using Hidden Markov Models and re-ranking

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1081-1088

  Alkhateeb, Jawad H ^a   Ren, Jinchang ^d   Jiang, Jianmin ^b   Al Muhtaseb, Husni ^c  

^a AL ZAYTOONAH UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov Models (HMM); Machine learning; Off line Arabic handwritten recognition; Re ranking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; IFN/ENIT-DATABASE; MACHINE-LEARNING; NUMBER OF SUBWORDS; OFF-LINE ARABIC HANDWRITTEN RECOGNITION; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; OFF-LINE RECOGNITION; RE-RANKING; RECOGNITION RATES; SLIDING WINDOW; TEXT RECOGNITION; THREE STAGES; WORD IMAGES; WRITING STYLE;

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 79953042413     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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