Applying discriminatively optimized feature transform for HMM-based off-line handwriting recognition

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-224

  Chen, Jin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^b   Cao, Huaigu ^b   Prasad, Rohit ^b   Natarajan, Prem ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; BASELINE SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINATING POWER; FEATURE SPACE; FEATURE TRANSFORM; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; HMM-BASED; LINEAR DISCRIMINATIVE ANALYSIS; LINEAR FEATURE; NONLINEAR FEATURES; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORD ERROR RATE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84874283996     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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