Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Literal Amounts Using a Hybrid Approach

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 382-393

  Boukharouba, Abdelhak ^a   Bennia, Abdelhak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELMA   (Algeria)

^b Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Arabic word modeling; Continuous hidden Markov models; Feature extraction; Multilayer perceptron; Segmentation; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON; SEGMENTATION; VITERBI; WORD MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MULTILAYERS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79957638704     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-010-9088-6     Document Type: Article

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