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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing the Number of States, Training Iterations and Gaussians in an HMM-based Handwritten Word Recognizer
In off-line handwriting recognition, classifiers based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) have become very popular. However, while there exist well-established training algorithms, s...
Simon Günter, Horst Bunke
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Classification of Hand Drawn Geometric Shapes using Constructional Sequence Analysis
A method for automatically assessing the constructional sequence from a neuropsychological drawing task using Hidden Markov Models is presented. We also present a method of extrac...
Richard M. Guest, Samuel Chindaro, Michael C. Fair...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Matching Scheme to Enhance Performance Evaluation of Raster-to-Vector Conversion Algorithms
This paper deals with performance evaluation of rasterto-vector conversion algorithms. We briefly review the past work, and focus our attention on a method proposed by Phillips a...
Xavier Hilaire
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Vectorization with the Voronoi L-diagram
A new precision vectorization method has been developed for building centerlines of plain shapes. First a dense skeleton is computed. Centerlines are obtained as a subset of branc...
Alexander Gribov, Eugene Bodansky
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Bank-check Processing System: Modifications Due to the New European Currency
N. Greco, D. Impedovo, M. G. Lucchese, A. Salzo, L...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Symbolic Pruning in a Structural Approach to Engineering Drawing Analysis
Interpretation of paper drawings has received a good deal of attention over the last decade. Progress has also been made in related areas such as direct interpretation of human dr...
Tom Henderson, Lavanya Swaminatha
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Integration of Contextual Information in Handwriting Recognition Systems
This paper investigates different strategies allowing integration of contextual information during the feature extraction stage of a cursive handwriting HMM-based recognition syst...
F. Grandidier, Robert Sabourin, Ching Y. Suen
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Postal address block location by contour clustering
We have developed a well performing algorithm for locating address blocks in postal parcel images. Both machine printed and handwritten addresses are processed by the algorithm. T...
Venu Govindaraju, Sergey Tulyakov
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Recognition of Rotated Characters by Eigen-space
In this paper, we present a method of recognizing inclined, rotated characters. First we construct an eigen sub-space for each category using the covariance matrix which is calcul...
Hiroyuki Hase, Toshiyuki Shinokawa, Masaaki Yoneda...