CNN-N-Gram for HandwritingWord Recognition

Arik Poznanski, Lior Wolf

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Abstract

Given an image of a handwritten word, a CNN is employed to estimate its n-gram frequency profile, which is the set of n-grams contained in the word. Frequencies for unigrams, bigrams and trigrams are estimated for the entire word and for parts of it. Canonical Correlation Analysis is then used to match the estimated profile to the true profiles of all words in a large dictionary. The CNN that is used employs several novelties such as the use of multiple fully connected branches. Applied to all commonly used handwriting recognition benchmarks, our method outperforms, by a very large margin, all existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2016
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2305-2314
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781467388504
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Dec 2016
Event29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2016 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 26 Jun 20161 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume2016-December
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period26/06/161/07/16

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