Novel sub-character HMM models for arabic text recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 658-662

  Ahmad, Irfan ^a   Rothacker, Leonard ^b   Fink, Gernot A ^b   Mahmoud, Sabri A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabic text recognition; Hidden Markov Models; OCR; Parameter sharing; Sub character HMMs

Indexed keywords

ARABIC CHARACTERS; ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION; DATA DISTRIBUTION; MODEL-BASED RECOGNITION; PARAMETER SHARING; SHAPE PATTERNS; SUB-CHARACTER HMMS; TEXT RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889583028     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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