Searching for Character Models

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18 (NIPS 2005)

Authors

Jaety Edwards, David Forsyth

Abstract

We introduce a method to automatically improve character models for a handwritten script without the use of transcriptions and using a minimum of document specific training data. We show that we can use searches for the words in a dictionary to identify portions of the document whose transcriptions are unambiguous. Using templates extracted from those regions, we retrain our character prediction model to drastically improve our search retrieval performance for words in the document.