Handwritten character recognition using elastic matching based on a class-dependent deformation model

  • Authors:
  • Seiichi Uchida;Hiroaki Sakoe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

For handwritten character recognition, a new elastic imagematching (EM) technique based on a class-dependentdeformation model is proposed. In the deformation model,any deformation of a class is described by a linear combinationof eigen-deformations, which are intrinsic deformationdirections of the class. The eigen-deformations canbe estimated statistically from the actual deformations ofhandwritten characters. Experimental results show that theproposed technique can attain higher recognition rates thanconventional EM techniques based on class-independentdeformation models. The results also show the superiorityof the proposed technique over those conventional EMtechniques in computational efficiency.