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...

unselected children (sic) so that the relative difficulty of the designs used seemed to be fairly well established. Since the publications of Kohs' standardization, the writer has used that method, which involves the use of cards, with a fair number of subjects. He has not yet overcome his prejudice in favor of; a straight imitation method, though he occasionally uses this material as a memory ...