An optimized multi-stream decoding algorithm for handwritten word recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 192-196

  Kessentini, Yousri ^a   Paquet, Thierry ^a   Guermazi, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Université de Savoie   (France)

Author keywords

Decoding; Handwriting recognition; Multi stream HMM; Two level

Indexed keywords

DECODING ALGORITHM; DECODING STRATEGY; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; MULTI-STREAM; MULTI-STREAM HMM; RECOGNITION TIME; TWO-LEVEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECODING; OPTIMIZATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355187598     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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