Title
An Optimized Multi-stream Decoding Algorithm for Handwritten Word Recognition
Abstract
This paper is focused on the optimization of the computational efficiency of a multi-stream word recognition system. The aim of this work is to optimize the multi-stream decoding step in order to reduce the recognition time and the complexity to allow combining a large number of streams. Two different multi-stream decoding strategies are compared based on two-level and HMM-recombination algorithms. Experiments carried out on public handwritten word databases show significant speed gains at decoding while keeping the same performances, in addition to new insights for combining a large number of streams.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICDAR.2011.47
Document Analysis and Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational complexity,handwritten character recognition,hidden Markov models,image coding,HMM-recombination algorithms,complexity reduction,computational efficiency,handwritten word recognition,hidden Markov models,multistream word recognition system,optimized multistream decoding algorithm,public handwritten word databases,recognition time reduction,Decoding,Handwriting recognition,Multi-stream HMM,Two-level
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Word recognition,Image coding,Handwriting recognition,Algorithm,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Decoding methods,Hidden Markov model,Intelligent word recognition,Computational complexity theory
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-5363 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4520-2
978-0-7695-4520-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yousri Kessentini110015.39
Thierry Paquet256556.65
Ahmed Guermazi300.68