Performance improvement of character recognition in industrial applications using prior knowledge for more reliable segmentation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6955-6963

  Grafmüller, Martin ^a   Beyerer, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Character segmentation; Prior knowledge

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REAL TIME CONSTRAINTS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SKEW ANGLE ESTIMATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84880527716     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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