%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Monday 30 December 2024 06:07:18 PM @ARTICLE{vincia01art, author = {Vinciarelli, Alessandro and Bengio, Samy}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {Writer adaptation techniques in {HMM} based Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition}, journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters}, volume = {23}, number = {8}, year = {2002}, note = {IDIAP-RR 01-15}, crossref = {vincia01a}, abstract = {This work presents the application of HMM adaptation techniques to the problem of Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition. Instead of training a new model for each writer, one first creates a unique model with a mixed database and then adapts it for each different writer using his own small dataset. Experiments on a publicly available benchmark database show that an adapted system has an accuracy higher than 80\\% even when less than 30 word samples are used during adaptation, while a system trained using the data of the single writer only needs at least 200 words in order to achieve the same performance as the adapted models.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2001/rr01-15.pdf}, postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/2001/rr01-15.ps.gz}, ipdmembership={vision}, } crossreferenced publications: @TECHREPORT{vincia01a, author = {Vinciarelli, Alessandro and Bengio, Samy}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {Writer adaptation techniques in HMM based Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-15-2001}, year = {2001}, institution = {IDIAP}, abstract = {This work presents the application of HMM adaptation techniques to the problem of Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition. Instead of training a new model for each writer, one first creates a unique model with a mixed database and then adapts it for each different writer using his own small dataset.\\ Experiments on a publicly available benchmark database show that an adapted system has an accuracy higher than 80\\% even when less than 30 word samples are used during adaptation, while a system trained using the data of the single writer only needs at least 200 words in order to achieve the same performance as the adapted models.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2001/rr01-15.pdf}, postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/2001/rr01-15.ps.gz}, ipdmembership={vision}, }