A Two-Stage HMM-Based System for Recognizing Handwritten Numeral Strings

  • Authors:
  • Alceu de S. Britto Jr

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '01 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: In this paper we propose a handwritten numeral string recognition method composed of two HMM-based stages. The first stage uses an implicit segmentation strategy based on string contextual information to provide multiple segmentation-recognition paths. These paths are verified and re-ranked by using a Verification stage based on a digit classifier. It allows the use of two sets of features and numeral models: one taking into account of both segmentation and recognition aspects in an implicit segmentation based strategy, and another considering just recognition aspects of isolated digits. The two system stages have shown to be complementary in the sense that the Verification stage has shown to be a promising idea to deal with the loss in terms of recognition performance brought by the necessary tradeoff between segmentation and recognition carried out in the first system stage.