The representation and recognition of text using hidden Markov models

A method is described for representing character images which involves the extraction of features from the columns and rows of pixels which constitute each bitmap image. Discrete hidden Markov models (HMMs) are used to represent sequences of quantised features from the training images. The motivatio...

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Main Author: Elms, A. J.
Published: University of Surrey 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308634