Given two character images, we would like to measure their similarity or difference. Such a similarity or difference measure facilitates the solution to character recognition and handwriting analysis problems. There is, however, no universal definition for similarity measure satisfying wide range of characteristics such as the slant, deformation or other invariant constraints. For this reason, ...

There are many things we humans have in common. But there are other things that are very unique to every individual DNA, fingerprints, etc. Handwriting is one other such thing that is unique to every individual, which the recent studies on Handwriting analysis have already proved. Although arguable is this issue, that handwriting can be mimicked and forgery becoming a huge issue, there is certa...

With “inclusive education” in the Dutch school system in mind, a new interdisciplinary counseling was conceptualized. Failing handwriting development in Grade 1 was scrutinized to explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary counseling. The development of two children with dysgraphic handwriting was followed in Grade 1, 2 and 3, and contrasted with the general results of their classmates. Tea...

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a combined visual efficiency and perceptual-motor training programme on the handwriting performance of Chinese children aged 6 to 9 years with handwriting difficulties (HWD). Methods: Twenty-six children with HWD were assigned randomly and equally into two groups. The training programme was provided over eight consecutive we...

We investigated how visual processes exploit specific anticipatory movements observed in handwriting gestures. Previous research has shown that the kinematic information contained in the downstroke of an l is exploited to predict the identity of the forthcoming letter. Here, we determined the moment at which prediction takes place. Two between-letter effects were examined: changes in size (ll v...

Previous studies of handwriting grip kinetics have demonstrated the ability to classify writers based on the topography of grip forces associated with signature writing. However, the topographic representation requires a large array of individual sensors in practice. The possibility of differentiating participants on the basis of a summative, temporal force profile is yet unknown. In this study...

CLINICAL SCENARIO: In the writer’s school-based occupational therapy practice, students with autism spectrums disorders (ASD), who comprise a significant part of the caseload, are often referred for intervention because of handwriting challenges. Of the many articles on handwriting intervention for school aged students, including a recent systematic review (Hoy, Egan & Feder, 2011), the diagnos...

New challenges in computer applications such as web searching, multimedia data retrieval, data mining, face recognition and handwriting recognition has attracted many researchers. Handwriting identification is one of the important research topics in the area of Pattern recognition and image processing. Many methods have been reported for identification of writer

The paper presents a computational theory for resolving Japanese zero anaphora, based on the notion of discourse segment. We see that the discourse segment reduces the domain of antecedents for zero anaphora and thus leads to their efficient resolution. Also we make crucial use of functional notions such as empathy hierarchy and minimal semantics thesis to resolve reference for zero anaphora [K...