An HMM Implementation for On-line Handwriting Recognition - Based on Pen-Coordinate Feature and Pen-Direction Feature

  • Authors:
  • Daiki Okumur;Seiichi Uchida;Hiroaki Sakoe

  • Affiliations:
  • Kyushu Universit, Japan;Kyushu Universit, Japan;Kyushu Universit, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

An on-line handwritten character recognition technique based on a new HMM is proposed. In the proposed HMM, not only pen-direction feature but also pen-coordinate feature are separately utilized for describing the shape variation of on-line characters accurately. Specijcally speaking, the proposed HMM outputs a pen-coordinate feature at each inter-state transition and outputs a pen-direction feature at each intra-state transition, i.e., self-transition. Thus, each state of the proposed HMM can specify the starting position and the direction of a line segment by its incoming inter-state transition and intra-state transition, respectively. The results of recognition experiments on 10-stroke Chinese characters show that the proposed HMM outperforms the conventional HMM which does not use the pen-coordinate feature because of its non-stationarity.