Fusing High- and Low-Level Features for Handwritten Word Recognition

Fusing High- and Low-Level Features for Handwritten Word Recognition

Koerich, A. L. and Britto, A.S.Jr and de Oliveira, L.E.S. and Sabourin, R.

International Conference on Frontiers in handwriting recognition 2006

Abstract : This paper presents a novel approach that combines high level and low level features for the recognition of handwritten words. Given a word image, high level features are extracted from loosely segmented words. Such features are used with an HMM word classifier in a lexicon łdots