The A2iA-Telecom ParisTech-UOB System for the ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Recognition Competition

This article describes the isolated word recognizer presented by the authors to the ICDAR 2009 French handwriting recognition competition. This system is a combination of three isolated word recognizers based on different features and models. A novel n-best combination method is proposed and compared to standard combination methods. New results on the ICDAR 2009 test database are reported.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICFHR
• Authors: Christopher Kermorvant, Farès Menasri, Anne-Laure Bianne, Ramy Al-Hajj Mohamad, Chafic Mokbel, Laurence Likforman-Sulem
• Keywords: Biometrics, Combination Methods, French Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2010, Isolated Word Recognizers