Lexicon-Driven Handwritten Word Recognition Using Optimal Linear Combinations of Order Statistics

In the standard segmentation-based approach to handwritten word recognition, individual character-class confidence scores are combined via averaging to estimate confidences in the hypothesized identities for a word. We describe a methodology for generating optimal linear combination of order statistics operators for combining character class confidence scores. Experimental results are provided on over 1000 word images.

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