• DocumentCode
    1743054
  • Title

    Speeding up the computation of the edit distance for cyclic strings

  • Author

    Marzal, Andrés ; Barrachina, Sergio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. d´´Inf., Jaume I Univ., Castello, Spain
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    891
  • Abstract
    A new algorithm to compute the edit distance between cyclic strings is presented. Experimental results with synthetic cyclic strings and a handwritten digits recognition task show that the new algorithm is faster than Maes´ (1990) and Gregor and Thomason´s (1993) algorithms
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; handwritten character recognition; string matching; cyclic strings; edit distance computation; handwritten digits recognition task; Contracts; Costs; Dynamic programming; Handwriting recognition; Heuristic algorithms; Pattern recognition; Tree graphs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0750-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.2000.906217
  • Filename
    906217