TY - JOUR
T1 - Handwritten word recognition with character and inter-character neural networks
AU - Gader, Paul D.
AU - Mohamed, Magdi
AU - Chiang, Jung Hsien
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 22, 1993; revised August 12, 1995. This work was supported by the U.S. Postal Service through the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA (email: [email protected]). Publisher Item Identifier S 1083-4419(97)00798-X.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - An off-line handwritten word recognition system is described. Images of handwritten words are matched to lexicons of candidate strings. A word image is segmented into primitives. The best match between sequences of unions of primitives and a lexicon string is found using dynamic programming. Neural networks assign match scores between characters and segments. Two particularly unique features are that neural networks assign confidence that pairs of segments are compatible with character confidence assignments and that this confidence is integrated into the dynamic programming. Experimental results are provided on data from the U.S. Postal Service.
AB - An off-line handwritten word recognition system is described. Images of handwritten words are matched to lexicons of candidate strings. A word image is segmented into primitives. The best match between sequences of unions of primitives and a lexicon string is found using dynamic programming. Neural networks assign match scores between characters and segments. Two particularly unique features are that neural networks assign confidence that pairs of segments are compatible with character confidence assignments and that this confidence is integrated into the dynamic programming. Experimental results are provided on data from the U.S. Postal Service.
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U2 - 10.1109/3477.552199
DO - 10.1109/3477.552199
M3 - Article
C2 - 18255853
AN - SCOPUS:0031077660
SN - 1083-4419
VL - 27
SP - 158
EP - 164
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
IS - 1
ER -