Hierarchical hybrid MLP/HMM or rather MLP features for a discriminatively trained Gaussian HMM: A comparison for offline handwriting recognition

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3541-3544

  Dreuw, Philippe ^a   Doetsch, Patrick ^a   Plahl, Christian ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; GAUSSIAN-HMM; GAUSSIANS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HYBRID APPROACH; NONLINEAR FEATURES; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84856297911     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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