Combining Local Features for Offline Writer Identification

Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR

Volumn 2014-December, Issue , 2014, Pages 583-588

  Jain, Rajiv ^a   Doermann, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature Combination; Handwriting; Writer Identification

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE COMBINATION; HANDWRITING; INDIVIDUAL FEATURES; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; LOCAL FEATURE; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WRITER IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84942239304     PISSN: 21676445     EISSN: 21676453     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2014.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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