Discriminant Substrokes for Online Handwriting Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Karteek Alahari;Satya Lahari Putrevu;C. V. Jawahar

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Visual Information Technology, Hyderabad, India;Centre for Visual Information Technology, Hyderabad, India;Centre for Visual Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

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

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Abstract

A discriminant-based framework for automatic recognition of online handwriting data is presented in this paper. We identify the substrokes that are more useful in discriminating between two online strokes. A similarity/dissimilarity score is computed based on the discriminatory potential of various parts of the stroke for the classification task. The discriminatory potential is then converted to the relative importance of the substroke. Experimental verification on online data such as numerals, characters supports our claims. We achieve an average reduction of 41% in the classification error rate on many test sets of similar character pairs.