Online Chinese handwriting recognition has attracted much research attention recently due to its complexity, wide-spread applications and emerging market demands. This material serves as a guide for pattern recognition researchers who have limited or no background in this language. We provide a brief review of the nature of the problem and challenges of online Chinese handwritten character reco...

A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolbox within the Matlab environment is presented. In this toolbox, the conventional techniques for the continuous and discrete HMM are developed for the training as well as for the test phases. The ability to make different groups of components for the vector pattern is provided. Multilabeling techniques for the discrete HMM is also provided. The toolbox includes p...

This paper presents a new algorithm to train multilayered perceptrons, u sing q uadr atical potential functions. This new algorithm is compared in an isolated word recognition task, with the back propagation algorithm that uses linear combinations of the inputs. Some pattern recognition techniques are also used to reduce the dimensinality of the input pattern in order to reduce the computationa...