Machine recognition of online handwritten Devanagari characters

Author

Joshi, Niranjan ; Sita, G. ; Ramakrishnan, A.G. ; Deepu, V. ; Madhvanath, Sriganesh

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Sci., India

fYear

2005

fDate

29 Aug.-1 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

1156

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a system for the automatic recognition of isolated handwritten Devanagari characters obtained by linearizing consonant conjuncts. Owing to the large number of characters and resulting demands on data acquisition, we use structural recognition techniques to reduce some characters to others. The residual characters are then classified using the subspace method. Finally the results of structural recognition and feature-based matching are mapped to give final output. The proposed system is evaluated for the writer dependent scenario.

Keywords

data acquisition; handwritten character recognition; pattern matching; automatic character recognition; data acquisition; feature-based matching; isolated handwritten Devanagari characters; machine recognition; online handwritten Devanagari characters; structural recognition; subspace method; Character recognition; Data acquisition; Databases; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Handwriting recognition; Laboratories; Speech recognition; Testing; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

ISSN

1520-5263

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2420-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2005.156

Filename

1575725