[EN] Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are now widely used for off-line text recognition in many languages and, in particular, Arabic. In previous work, we proposed to directly use columns of raw, binary image pixels, which are ...
Alkhoury, Ihab; Giménez Pastor, Adrián; Andrés Ferrer, Jesús; Juan Císcar, Alfonso; Sánchez Peiró, Joan Andreu(US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2013-08-23)
The NIST Open Handwriting Recognition and
Translation Evaluation 2013 (NIST OpenHaRT’13) is a performance
evaluation assessing technologies that transcribe and
translate text in document images. This evaluation is focused ...
[EN] Bernoulli HMMs are conventional HMMs in which the emission probabilities are modeled with Bernoulli mixtures. They have recently been applied, with good results, in off-line text recognition in many languages, in ...