Off-line Character Recognition using On-line Character Writing Information

  • Authors:
  • Hiromitsu Nishimura;Takehiko Timikawa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

Recognition of variously deformed character patternsis a salient subject for off-line hand-printed characterrecognition. Sufficient recognition performance forpractical use has not been achieved despite reports ofmany recognition techniques.Our research examines effective recognitiontechniques for deformed characters, extendingconventional recognition techniques using an on-linecharacter writing information containing writing pressuredata. This study extends conventional recognitiontechniques using on-line character writing informationcontaining writing pressure information. A recognitionsystem using simple pattern matching and HMM wasmade for evaluation experiments using Common Hand-printedEnglish character patterns from the ETL6database to determine effectiveness of the proposedextending recognition method. Character recognitionperformance is increased in both expansion recognitionmethods using on-line writing information.