Bag-of-features HMMs for segmentation-free word spotting in handwritten documents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1305-1309

  Rothacker, Leonard ^a   Rusinol, Marcal ^b   Fink, Gernot A ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bag of Features; Handwritten Word Spotting; Hidden Markov Models; Segmentation free Word Spotting

Indexed keywords

BAG-OF-FEATURES; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; LEARNING SAMPLES; LOCAL IMAGE FEATURES; TRAINING DATA; USE STATISTICS; WORD SPOTTING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84889563061     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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