A Model of On-line Handwritten Japanese Text Recognition Free from Line Direction and Writing Format Constraints

  • Authors:

  • Masaki Nakagawa;Bilan Zhu;Motoki Onuma

  • Affiliations:

  • The authors are with the Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, 184--8588 Japan. E-mail: zhubilan@hands.ei.tuat.ac.jp;The authors are with the Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, 184--8588 Japan. E-mail: zhubilan@hands.ei.tuat.ac.jp;The authors are with the Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, 184--8588 Japan. E-mail: zhubilan@hands.ei.tuat.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a model and its effect for on-line handwritten Japanese text recognition free from line-direction constraint and writing format constraint such as character writing boxes or ruled lines. The model evaluates the likelihood composed of character segmentation, character recognition, character pattern structure and context. The likelihood of character pattern structure considers the plausible height, width and inner gaps within a character pattern that appear in Chinese characters composed of multiple radicals (subpatterns). The recognition system incorporating this model separates freely written text into text line elements, estimates the average character size of each element, hypothetically segments it into characters using geometric features, applies character recognition to segmented patterns and employs the model to search the text interpretation that maximizes likelihood as Japanese text. We show the effectiveness of the model through recognition experiments and clarify how the newly modeled factors in the likelihood affect the overall recognition rate.