Handwritten and typewritten text identification and recognition using hidden Markov models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 744-748

  Cao, Huaigu ^a   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; hidden Markov model; optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; FEATURE SEQUENCE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SAMPLE RATE; TEXT IDENTIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 82355186309     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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