Evaluation of Incremental Learning Algorithms for An \HMM\-Based Handwritten Isolated Digits Recognizer

Evaluation of Incremental Learning Algorithms for An \HMM\-Based Handwritten Isolated Digits Recognizer

Cavalin, P R and Sabourin, R and Suen, C Y and Jr, A S Britto

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2008) 2008

Abstract : We present an evaluation of incremental learning algorithms for the estimate of HMM parameters. The main goal was to investigate incremental learning algorithms that can replace traditional batch learning techniques, incorporating the advantages of incremental łdots