Improving a HMM-based off-line handwriting recognition system using MME-PSO optimization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7874, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hamdani, Mahdi ^a   El Abed, Haikal ^b   Hamdani, Tarek M ^a   Märgner, Volker ^b   Alimi, Adel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabic Handwriting Recognition; Hidden Markov Models; Particle Swarm Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; BASIC SYSTEMS; BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHMS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; IFN/ENIT-DATABASE; ITS ARCHITECTURE; MULTI MODEL; NUMBER OF STATE; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PARTICIPATING SYSTEMS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 79955727091     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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