A comparative study of Persian/Arabic handwritten character recognition

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 123-128

  Alaei, Alireza ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b   Nagabhushan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chain code; Gradient features; Handwriting recognition; Persian Arabic character recognition; Shadow features; Under sampled bitmaps

Indexed keywords

BIT MAPS; CHAIN CODES; GRADIENT FEATURE; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PERSIANS; SHADOW FEATURES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874224891     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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