TY - GEN
T1 - Arabic handwriting recognition using baseline dependant features and hidden Markov modeling
AU - El-Hajj, Ramy
AU - Likforman-Sulem, Laurence
AU - Mokbel, Chafic
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - In this paper we describe a 1D HMM off-line handwriting recognition system employing an analytical approach. The system is supported by a set of robust language independent features extracted on binary images. Parameters such as lower and upper baselines are used to derive a subset of baseline dependent features. Thus, word variability due to lower and upper parts of words is better taken into account. In addition, the proposed system learns character models without character pre-segmentation. Experiments that have been conducted on the benchmark IFN/ENIT database of Tunisian handwritten country/village names, show the advantage of the proposed approach and of the baseline- dependant features.
AB - In this paper we describe a 1D HMM off-line handwriting recognition system employing an analytical approach. The system is supported by a set of robust language independent features extracted on binary images. Parameters such as lower and upper baselines are used to derive a subset of baseline dependent features. Thus, word variability due to lower and upper parts of words is better taken into account. In addition, the proposed system learns character models without character pre-segmentation. Experiments that have been conducted on the benchmark IFN/ENIT database of Tunisian handwritten country/village names, show the advantage of the proposed approach and of the baseline- dependant features.
U2 - 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.53
DO - 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.53
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645142990
SN - 0769524206
SN - 9780769524207
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
SP - 893
EP - 897
BT - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
T2 - 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Y2 - 31 August 2005 through 1 September 2005
ER -