Performance of hidden Markov model and dynamic Bayesian network classifiers on handwritten Arabic word recognition

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 680-688

  Alkhateeb, Jawad H ^a   Pauplin, Olivier ^b   Ren, Jinchang ^c   Jiang, Jianmin ^b  

^a AL ZAYTOONAH UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic Bayesian network (DBN); Hidden Markov model (HMM); IFN ENIT database; Off line handwritten recognition; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); IFN/ENIT DATABASE; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 79955006396     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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