Title
Windowed Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition
Abstract
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are now widely used in off-line handwriting recognition and, in particular, in Arabic handwritten word recognition. In contrast to the conventional approach, based on Gaussian mixture HMMs, we have recently proposed to directly fed columns of raw, binary pixels into Bernoulli mixture HMMs. In this work, column bit vectors are extended by means of a sliding window of adequate width to better capture image context at each horizontal position of the word image. Using these windowed Bernoulli mixture HMMs, very good results are reported on the well-known IfN/ENIT database of Arabic handwritten Tunisian town names.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICFHR.2010.88
Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
hidden markov models,windowed bernoulli mixture hmms,arabic handwritten tunisian town,gaussian mixture hmms,arabic handwritten word recognition,word image,bernoulli mixture hmms,enit database,better capture image context,off-line handwriting recognition,hidden markov model,handwriting recognition,arabic,sliding window,hmm,databases,prototypes,image segmentation,pixel,speech recognition
Sliding window protocol,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Word recognition,Handwriting recognition,Image segmentation,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Hidden Markov model,Bernoulli's principle,Binary number
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-8353-2
9
0.69
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adria Gimenez1304.16
Ihab Khoury2211.95
alfons juan357261.45