Effective technique for the recognition of offline Arabic handwritten words using hidden Markov models

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 399-412

  Azeem, Sherif Abdel ^a   Ahmed, Hany ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic handwriting recognition; Effective features; Fusion; Hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE FEATURES; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; HORIZONTAL SEGMENTS; INPUT IMAGE; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; SLIDING WINDOW;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DECODING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PIXELS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84888368434     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-013-0201-8     Document Type: Article

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