Dempster-Shafer based rejection strategy for handwritten word recognition

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 528-532

  Burger, Thomas ^a   Kessentini, Yousri ^b   Paquet, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dempster Shafer theory; Handwriting recognition; Rejection strategy

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; MASS FUNCTIONS; REJECTION METHODS; REJECTION STRATEGY;

DATA FUSION; FORMAL LOGIC; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355160807     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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