Smoothing of HMM parameters for efficient recognition of online handwriting

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3614-3629

  Samanta, O ^a   Bhattacharya, U ^a   Parui, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov model; Online handwriting; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITING STYLES; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; LINEAR FEATURE; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; ON-LINE HANDWRITINGS; VOCABULARY RECOGNITION; VON MISES DISTRIBUTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84904389479     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.04.019     Document Type: Article

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