Text line segmentation and word recognition in a system for general writer independent handwriting recognition

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 159-163

  Marti, U V ^a   Bunke, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Text line to word segmentation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND RECOGNITION; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84951756359     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953775     Document Type: Article

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