Title :
Recovery of temporal information of cursively handwritten words for on-line recognition
Author :
Bunke, H. ; Ammann, R. ; Kaufmann, G. ; Ha, T.M. ; Schenkel, M. ; Seiler, R. ; Eggimann, F.
Author_Institution :
Berne Univ., Switzerland
Abstract :
On-line recognition differs from off-line recognition in that additional information about the drawing order of the strokes is available. This temporal information makes it easier to recognize handwritten texts with an on-line recognition system. In this paper we present a method for the recovery of the stroke order from static handwritten images. The algorithm was tested by classifying the words of an off-line database with a state-of-the-art on-line recognition system. On this database with 150 different words, written by four cooperative writers, a recognition rate of 97.4% was obtained
Keywords :
character recognition; handwriting recognition; image reconstruction; cursively handwritten words; handwritten texts; on-line recognition; static handwritten images; stroke order; temporal information; Character recognition; Handwriting recognition; Image databases; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems; Reconstruction algorithms; Skeleton; Spatial databases; System testing; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7898-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1997.620647
