Structural Information Implant in a Context Based Segmentation-Free HMM Handwritten Word Recognition System for Latin and Bangla Script

  • Authors:
  • Szilard Vajda;Abdel Belayd

  • Affiliations:
  • Loria Research Center READ Group, France;Loria Research Center READ Group, France

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, an improvement of a 2D stochastic model based handwritten entity recognition system is described. To model the handwriting considered as being a two dimensional signal, a context based, segmentation-free Hidden Markov Model (HMM) recognition system was used. The baseline approach combines a Markov Random Field (MRF) and a HMM so-called Non-Symmetric Half Plane Hidden Markov Model (NSHP-HMM). To improve the results performed by this baseline system operating just on low-level pixel information an extension of the NSHP-HMM is proposed. The mechanism allows to extend the observations of the NSHP-HMM by implanting structural information in the system. At present, the accuracy of the system on the SRTP1 French postal check database is 87.52% while for the handwritten Bangla city names is 86.80%. The gain using this structural information for the SRTP dataset is 1.57%.