Hidden Markov Models: Applications In Computer Vision

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Horst Bunke, Terry Michael Caelli
World Scientific, Jun 4, 2001 - Computers - 244 pages
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) originally emerged in the domain of speech recognition. In recent years, they have attracted growing interest in the area of computer vision as well. This book is a collection of articles on new developments in the theory of HMMs and their application in computer vision. It addresses topics such as handwriting recognition, shape recognition, face and gesture recognition, tracking, and image database retrieval.This book is also published as a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (February 2001).
 

Contents

PREFACE
1
INTRODUCTION
5
AN INTRODUCTION TO HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS
9
MULTILINGUAL MACHINE PRINTED OCR
43
6 Summary and Future Work
58
USING A STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF AN HMMBASED CURSIVE HANDWRITING RECOG...
65
A 2D HMM METHOD FOR OFFLINE HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION
91
DATADRIVEN DESIGN OF HMM TOPOLOGY FOR ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
107
HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS FOR MODELING AND RECOGNIZING GESTURE UNDER VARIATION
123
SENTENCE LIPREADING USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL WITH INTEGRATED GRAMMAR
161
TRACKING AND SURVEILLANCE IN WIDEAREA SPATIAL ENVIRONMENTS USING THE ABSTRACT HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL
177
SHAPE TRACKING AND PRODUCTION USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
197
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SHAPE AND COLORBASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL OF ROTATED OBJECTS USING HIDDEN MARKOV M...
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