Feature extraction with convolutional neural networks for handwritten word recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 285-289

  Bluche, Theodore ^a   Ney, Hermann ^b   Kermorvant, Christopher ^c  

^a A2iA SA   (France)

^b UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; RIMES DATABASE; SLIDING WINDOW; STATE OF THE ART;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889600746     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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