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Hidden Markov models combining discrete symbols and continuous attributes in handwriting recognition

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Abstract

Prior arts in handwritten word recognition model either discrete features or continuous features, but not both. This paper combines discrete symbols and continuous attributes into structural handwriting features and model, them by transition-emitting and state-emitting hidden Markov models. The models are rigorously defined and experiments have proven their effectiveness.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)458-462
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2006

Keywords

  • Handwriting analysis
  • Markov processes

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