Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writer-independent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which is tuned for a particular writer. Adaptation has the potential of increasing recognition accuracies, provided adequate models can be constructed for a particular writer. The limited amount of data ...

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

Endo Shusaku's oeuvre is a fascinating literary attempt at reconciliation of (Western) Christianity and Japanese culture. As Christian Japanese, was living embodiment this religious cultural struggle, but he also writer thus in fitting position to express the agonies identity crisis that his compatriots had endure for centuries. was, other words, interested mission process known as inculturatio...

A new writer adaption method based on incremental linear discriminant analysis (ILDA) is presented in this paper. We first provide a more general solution for ILDA and then present a Weighted ILDA (WILDA) approach. Based on ILDA or WILDA, the writer adaptation is performed by updating the LDA transformation matrix and the classifier prototypes in the discriminative feature space. Experimental r...

This paper presents a survey of the literature on writer identification schemes and techniques up till date. The paper outlines an overview of the writer identification schemes mainly in Chinese, English, Arabic and Persian languages. Taxonomy of different features adopted for online and offline writer identification schemes is also drawn at. The feature extraction methods adopted for the schem...