Title :
Off-line recognition of cursive script produced by a cooperative writer
Author :
Bunke, H. ; Roth, M. ; Schukat-Talamazzini, E.G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Inf. und Angewandte Math., Bern Univ., Switzerland
Abstract :
A method for the off-line recognition of cursive handwriting based on hidden Markov models is described. The features used in the HMMs are based on the arcs of skeleton graphs of the words to be recognized. An average correct recognition rate of over 98% on the word level has been achieved in experiments with cooperative writers using two dictionaries of 150 words each
Keywords :
hidden Markov models; cooperative writer; cursive handwriting; cursive script; hidden Markov models; off-line recognition; skeleton graphs; Application software; Character recognition; Dictionaries; Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Optical character recognition software; Postal services; Skeleton; Speech recognition; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1994. Vol. 2 - Conference B: Computer Vision & Image Processing., Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jerusalem
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6270-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1994.576948
