Feature design for offline arabic handwriting recognition: Handcrafted vs automated?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 290-294

  Chherawala, Youssouf ^a   Roy, Partha Pratim ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; ARABIC WORD RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED NEURAL NETWORKS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FORM; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; TEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84889591571     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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