HMM-based lexicon-driven and lexicon-free word recognition for online handwritten indic scripts

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 670-682

  Bharath, A ^a   Madhvanath, Sriganesh ^b  

^a Genesys Telecom Labs   (India)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

bag of symbols; lexicon driven; lexicon free; Online handwriting recognition; symbol order variationDevanagari; Tamil; word recognition

Indexed keywords

LEXICON DRIVEN; LEXICON FREE; ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; SYMBOL ORDER VARIATIONDEVANAGARI; TAMIL; WORD RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; STANDARDS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HANDWRITING; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; READING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HANDWRITING; INDIA; INTERNET; MARKOV CHAINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; READING;

EID: 84857423028     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.234     Document Type: Article

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