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This paper brings a contribution to the problem of efficiently recognizing handwritten words from a limited size lexicon. For that, a multiple classifier system has been developed that analyzes the words from three different approximation levels, in order to get a computational approach inspired on the human reading process. For each approximation level a three-module architecture composed of a zoning mechanism (pseudo-segmenter), a feature extractor and a classifier is defined. The proposed application is the recognition of the Portuguese handwritten names of the months, for which a best recognition rate of 97.7% was obtained, using classifier combination.
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de Oliveira, J.J., de A. Freitas, C.O., de Carvalho, J.M., Sabourin, R. (2009). Handwritten Word Recognition Using Multi-view Analysis. In: Bayro-Corrochano, E., Eklundh, JO. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10268-4_44
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