Generation of synthetic training data for an HMM-based handwriting recognition system

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 618-622

  Varga, Tamás ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMATION; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HMM-BASED; PERTURBATION MODEL; SYNTHETIC TRAINING DATA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84945918022     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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