Baseline estimation for Arabic handwritten words

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 479-484

  Pechwitz, M ^a   Margner, V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATED SKELETONS; BASELINE ESTIMATION; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; HORIZONTAL PROJECTIONS; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; PRINTED TEXTS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84893506037     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2002.1030956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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