Co-training for handwritten word recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 314-318

  Frinken, Volkmar ^a   Fischer, Andreas ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a   Fórnes, Alicia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BLSTM NN; Co Training; Handwriting Recognition; HMMs; Semi supervised Learning; Single Word Recognition

Indexed keywords

BLSTM NN; CO-TRAINING; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HMMS; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; WORD RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355168616     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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