3. ICDAR 1995: Montreal, Canada

Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 1995, August 14 - 15, 1995, Montreal, Canada, Volume I. IEEE Computer Society, 1995

Keynote Speech

Peter E. Baier:
Image processing of forensic documents. 1-
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Word Recognition I

Sargur N. Srihari, Yong-Chul Shin, Vemulapati Ramanaprasad, Dar-Shyang Lee:
Name and Address Block Reader system for tax form processing. 5-10
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Didier Guillevic, Ching Y. Suen:
Cursive script recognition applied to the processing of bank cheques. 11-14
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Jean-Pierre Dodel, Rajjan Shinghal:
Symbolic/neural recognition of cursive amounts on bank cheques. 15-18
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Christian Olivier, Thierry Paquet, Manuel Avila, Yves Lecourtier:
Recognition of handwritten words using stochastic models. 19-23
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Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju:
Handwritten word recognition for real-time applications. 24-
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Neural Networks

Seong-Whan Lee, Jong Soo Kim:
Multi-lingual, multi-font and multi-size large-set character recognition using self-organizing neural network. 28-33
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Seong-Whan Lee, Young-Joon Kim:
A new type of recurrent neural network for handwritten character recognition. 34-37
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Seong-Whan Lee, Young-Joon Kim:
A new type of recurrent neural network for handwritten character recognition. 38-41
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Dar-Shyang Lee, Sargur N. Srihari:
A theory of classifier combination: the neural network approach. 42-45
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Hui Su, Wei Wang, Xinyou Li, Shaowei Xia:
Hierarchical neural network for recognizing hand-written characters in engineering drawings. 46-
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On-Line Recognition I

Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Bernadette Dorizzi, Patrick Gallinari, A. Mellouk, D. Fanchon:
A hidden Markov model extension of a neural predictive system for on-line character recognition. 50-53
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Pyeoung Kee Kim, Hang Joon Kim:
On-line recognition of run-on Korean characters. 54-
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Luc Julia, Claudie Faure:
Pattern recognition and beautification for a pen based interface. 58-63
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Robert K. Powalka, Nasser Sherkat, Robert J. Whitrow:
Zoning invariant holistic recognizer for hybrid recognition of handwriting. 64-67
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Robert K. Powalka, Nasser Sherkat, Robert J. Whitrow:
Recognizer characterisation for combining handwriting recognition results at word level. 68-
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Application Systems

Nick W. Strathy, Ching Y. Suen:
A two-stage multi-network OCR system with a soft pre-classifier and a network selector. 78-81
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Sriganesh Madhvanath, Venu Govindaraju, Vemulapati Ramanaprasad, Dar-Shyang Lee, Sargur N. Srihari:
Reading handwritten US census forms. 82-85
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L. Simoncini, Zsolt Miklós Kovács-Vajna:
A system for reading USA census '90 hand-written fields. 86-91
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Edouard Lethelier, Manuel Leroux, Michel Gilloux:
An automatic reading system for handwritten numeral amounts on French checks. 92-
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Handwritten Character Recognition

Takahiko Kawatani:
Character recognition performance improvement using personal handwriting characteristics. 98-103
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N. Feray, Denis de Brucq, K. Romeo-Pakker, Thierry Paquet:
Evaluation of codes and primitives: recognition of unconstrained handwritten numerals. 104-107
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Jun Cao, Malayappan Shridhar, Majid Ahmadi:
Fusion of classifiers with fuzzy integrals. 108-111
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Moon Jeung Joe, Huen Joo Lee:
A combined method on the handwritten character recognition. 112-115
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Hung-Pin Chiu, Din-Chang Tseng, Jen-Chieh Cheng:
Invariant handwritten Chinese character recognition using weighted ring-data matrix. 116-
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Segmentation I

Yasuo Ariki, Y. Motegi:
Segmentation and recognition of handwritten characters using subspace method. 120-123
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Uma Mahadevan, Ramesh C. Nagabushnam:
Gap metrics for word separation in handwritten lines. 124-127
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Shin-Ywan Wang, Toshiaki Yagasaki:
Block selection: a method for segmenting a page image of various editing styles. 128-133
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Masaharu Ozaki:
Column segmentation by white space pattern matching. 134-
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Image Processing Techniques

Yong Jian Gao, J. J. Lim, A. Desai Narasimhalu:
Fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder in multimedia information systems. 142-145
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Yu Zhong, Kalle Karu, Anil K. Jain:
Locating text in complex color images. 146-149
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Keiji Yamada:
Optimal sampling intervals for Gabor features and printed Japanese character recognition. 150-153
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Shigeru Shimada, Kishiko Maruyama, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Hiraki:
Agent-based parallel recognition method of contour lines. 154-157
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Database and Document Retrieval

Tyne Liang, Suh-Yin Lee, Wei-Pang Yang:
False hits of tri-syllabic queries in a Chinese signature file. 159-162
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Shin'ichi Satoh, Atsuhiro Takasu, Eishi Katsura:
An automated generation of an electronic library based on document image understanding. 163-166
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Masanori Sugimoto, Koichi Hori, Setsuo Ohsuga:
A document retrieval system for assisting creative research. 167-170
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Koji Tsuda, Shuji Senda, Michihiko Minoh, Katsuo Ikeda:
Clustering OCR-ed texts for browsing document image database. 171-174
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F. Kanehara, S. Satoh, T. Hamada:
A flexible image retrieval using explicit visual instruction. 175-
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Signature Verificaton

Brigitte Wirtz:
Stroke-based time warping for signature verification. 179-182
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Frédéric Bauer, Brigitte Wirtz:
Parameter reduction and personalized parameter selection for automatic signature verification. 183-186
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Ke Han, Ishwar K. Sethi:
Signature identification via local association of features. 187-190
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Nabeel A. Murshed, Flávio Bortolozzi, Robert Sabourin:
Off-line signature verification, without a priori knowledge of class /spl omega//sub 2/. A new approach. 191-196
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Robert Sabourin, Ginette Genest:
An extended-shadow-code based approach for off-line signature verification. II. Evaluation of several multi-classifier combination strategies. 197-201
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Xu-Hong Xiao, Ru-Wei Dai:
A hierarchical on-line Chinese signature verification system. 202-
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Model-Base Document Analysis

O. T. Akindele, Abdel Belaïd:
Construction of generic models of document structures using inference of tree grammars. 206-209
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Mohamed Cheriet, Joseph N. Said, Ching Y. Suen:
A formal model for document processing of business forms. 210-
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Edward A. Green, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy:
Model-based analysis of printed tables. 214-217
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Osamu Hori, David S. Doermann:
Robust table-form structure analysis based on box-driven reasoning. 218-221
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Horst Bunke, R. Liviero:
Classification and postprocessing of documents using an error-correcting parser. 222-
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Image Processing

Fu Chang, Yung-Ping Cheng, Theodosios Pavlidis, Tsuey-Yuh Shuai:
A line sweep thinning algorithm. 227-230
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Hon-Son Don:
A noise attribute thresholding method for document image binarization. 231-234
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Seong-Whan Lee, Eun-Soon Kim, Yuan Yan Tang:
Nonlinear shape restoration of distorted images with Coons transformation. 235-238
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Atsuhiro Takasu, Shin'ichi Satoh, Eishi Katsura:
A rule learning method for academic document image processing. 239-242
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Markus Röösli, Gladys Monagan:
A high quality vectorization combining local quality measures and global constraints. 243-
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Map Interpretation

Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, Hervé Le Men, Georges Stamon:
Characters string recognition on maps, a method for high level reconstruction. 249-252
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Gerd Maderlechner, Helmut Mayer:
Conversion of high level information from scanned maps into geographic information systems. 253-256
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Huizhu Luo, Gady Agam, Its'hak Dinstein:
Directional mathematical morphology approach for line thinning and extraction of character strings from maps and line drawings. 257-260
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Wei Wu, Wei Lu, Masao Sakauchi:
An object-oriented model for drawing understanding and its ability of noise absorption. 261-
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Classification Methods

Takahiko Horiuchi, Kazuo Toraichi, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Yamada:
Relaxation optimizing processes in extended probabilistic space. 266-269
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Tao Hong, Stephen W. K. Lam, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari:
The design of a nearest-neighbor classifier and its use for Japanese character recognition. 270-273
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Hiroki Mori, Hirotomo Aso, Shozo Makino:
Japanese document recognition based on interpolated n-gram model of character. 274-277
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Tin Kam Ho:
Random decision forests. 278-
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Document Understanding

Yasuto Ishitani:
Model matching based on association graph for form image understanding. 287-292
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Gary S. D. Farrow, Costas S. Xydeas, John P. Oakley:
Model matching in intelligent document understanding. 293-296
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Koong H. C. Lin, Rey-Long Liu, Von-Wun Soo:
Interactive acquisition of thematic information of Chinese verbs for judicial verdict document understanding using templates, syntactic clues, and heuristics. 297-300
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Antoine Ting, Maylor K. H. Leung, Siu Cheung Hui, Kai-Yun Chan:
A syntactic business form classifier. 301-304
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Keiji Gyohten, Tomoko Sumiya, Noboru Babaguchi, Koh Kakusho, Tadahiro Kitahashi:
Extracting characters and character lines in multi-agent scheme. 305-
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Feature Extraction

Daniel P. Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou, George Nagy, Prateek Sarkar:
Spatial sampling effects in optical character recognition. 309-314
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Wolfgang Utschick, P. Nachbar, C. Knobloch, A. Schuler, Josef A. Nossek:
The evaluation of feature extraction criteria applied to neural network classifiers. 315-318
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L. R. Blando, Junichi Kanai, Thomas A. Nartker:
Prediction of OCR accuracy using simple image features. 319-322
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P. V. S. Rao, T. M. Ajitha:
Telugu script recognition-a feature based approach. 323-326
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Daniel X. Le, George R. Thoma, Harry Wechsler:
Document image analysis using integrated image and neural processing. 327-
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Reconstruction and Interpretation

Christian Ah-Soon, Karl Tombre:
A step towards reconstruction of 3-D CAD models from engineering drawings. 331-334
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Hideki Tanahashi, Katsuhiko Sakaue, Kazuhiko Yamamoto:
Recovering decorative patterns of ceramic objects from a monocular image using a genetic algorithm. 339-342
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R. E. Marston, M. H. Kuo:
Interpretation of 3-view engineering drawings as central quadric surface mechanical parts. 343-346
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Atish K. Das, Noshir A. Langrana:
Recognition of dimension sets and integration with vectorized engineering drawings. 347-
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Word Recognition II

Sheila X. Zhao, Sargur N. Srihari:
A word recognition algorithm for machine-printed word images of multiple fonts and varying qualities. 351-354
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Badr Al-Badr, Robert M. Haralick:
Segmentation-free word recognition with application to Arabic. 355-359
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Chi Fang, Jonathan J. Hull:
A hypothesis testing approach to word recognition using an A* search algorithm. 360-363
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Philippe Gentric:
Experimental results on improved handwritten word recognition using the Levenshtein metric. 364-367
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Jean-Michel Bertille, Michel Gilloux:
A probabilistic approach to automatic handwritten address reading. 368-
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Document Analysis

Judith Hochberg, Lila Kerns, Patrick Kelly, Timothy Thomas:
Automatic script identification from images using cluster-based templates. 378-381
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Torsten Caesar, Joachim M. Gloger, Eberhard Mandler:
Estimating the baseline for written material. 382-385
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Arnold Jonk, Arnold W. M. Smeulders:
An axiomatic approach to clustering line-segments. 386-389
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I. S. I. Abuhaiba, S. Datta, Murray J. J. Holt:
Line extraction and stroke ordering of text pages. 390-
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Neural Networks and Systems

Michel Gilloux, Bernard Lemarié, Manuel Leroux:
A hybrid radial basis function network/hidden Markov model handwritten word recognition system. 394-397
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Francine Chen, Lynn Wilcox, Dan S. Bloomberg:
A comparison of discrete and continuous hidden Markov models for phrase spotting in text images. 398-402
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Stefan Manke, Michael Finke, Alex Waibel:
NPen/sup ++/: a writer independent, large vocabulary on-line cursive handwriting recognition system. 403-408
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Hee-Seon Park, Seong-Whan Lee:
Hidden Markov mesh random field: theory and its application to handwritten character recognition. 409-412
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Seong-Whan Lee, Eung-Jae Lee:
Integrated segmentation and recognition of connected handwritten characters with recurrent neural network. 413-
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Symbol Recognition

Ann Grbavec, Dorothea Blostein:
A. Grbavec, D. Blostein. 417-421
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Yung-Sheng Chen:
Computer processing on the identification of a Chinese seal image. 422-425
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Y. J. Bae, Michael C. Fairhurst:
Parallelism in dynamic time warping for automatic signature verification. 426-429
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Hashim M. Twaakyondo, Masayuki Okamoto:
Structure analysis and recognition of mathematical expressions. 430-437
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Cheng-Lin Liu, Ru-Wei Dai, Ying-Jian Liu:
Extracting individual features from moments for Chinese writer identification. 438-
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Postprocessing

Tao Hong, Jonathan J. Hull:
Visual inter-word relations and their use in OCR postprocessing. 442-445
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R. Garcia Garcia, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, F. Merino Pastor, Juan López Coronado:
Error detection in character recognition using pseudosyllable analysis. 446-
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Hsi-Jian Lee, Cheng-Huang Tung:
A language model based on semantically clustered words in a Chinese character recognition system. 450-453
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Isabelle Guyon, Fernando Pereira:
Design of a linguistic postprocessor using variable memory length Markov models. 454-457
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Anikó Simon, Jean-Christophe Pret, A. Peter Johnson:
(Chem)DeT/sub E/X automatic generation of a markup language description of (chemical) documents from bitmap images. 458-
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Document Structure and Analysis

Kristen Maria Summers:
Near-wordless document structure classification. 462-465
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Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro:
A knowledge-based approach to the layout analysis. 466-471
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Debashish Niyogi, Sargur N. Srihari:
Knowledge-based derivation of document logical structure. 472-
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T. A. Bayer, H. Walischewski:
Experiments on extracting structural information from paper documents using syntactic pattern. 476-479
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Philippe Lefèvre, François Reynaud:
ODIL: an SGML description language of the layout structure of documents. 480-
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Modeling Methods

Jean-Pierre Crettez:
A set of handwriting families: style recognition. 489-494
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Wacef Guerfali, Réjean Plamondon:
The Delta LogNormal theory for the generation and modeling of cursive characters. 495-498
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Gidas Menier, Guy Lorette, Philippe Gentric:
A new modeling method for on-line handwriting recognition. 499-503
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A. J. Elms, John Illingworth:
Modelling polyfont printed characters with HMMs and a shift invariant Hamming distance. 504-
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George Saon, Abdel Belaïd, Y. Gong:
Stochastic trajectory modeling for recognition of unconstrained handwritten words. 508-
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Drawing and Map Recognition

Wei Lu, Wei Wu, Masao Sakauchi:
A drawing recognition system with rule acquisition ability. 512-515
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Chikahito Nakajima, Toshihiro Yazawa:
Automatic recognition of facility drawings and street maps utilizing the facility management database. 516-519
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Wei Lu, Toshiyuki Okuhashi, Masao Sakauchi:
A proposal of efficient interactive recognition system for understanding of map drawings. 520-523
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Dong-June Lee, Seong-Whan Lee:
A new methodology for gray-scale character segmentation and recognition. 524-527
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Jingbo Gao, Long Tang, Liu Wenyin, Zesheng Tang:
Segmentation and recognition of dimension texts in engineering drawings. 528-
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