In this paper, we propose a new character generation method from on-line handwriting recognizers based on Bayesian networks. On-line handwriting recognizers are trained with handwriting samples from many writers. Then, character shapes are generated from given texts by searching the most probable input point sequences. Since Bayesian network based classifiers have large number of parameters for...

This paper presents a novel hybrid modeling technique that is used for the first time in Hidden Markov Modelbased handwriting recognition. This new approach combines the advantages of discrete and continuous Markov models and it is shown that this is especially suitable for modeling the features typically used in handwriting recognition. The performance of this hybrid technique is demonstrated ...

The fundamental representation of handwriting is a quasi-contiguous set of strokes. In offline settings handwriting stroke extraction is complicated by adjacent and overlapping strokes. This paper describes a reconstruction of the stroke information using a newly developed XYTC transform. This representation is very appropriate for handwriting feature extraction, stroke segmentation, underline ...

Handwriting had been an excellent means to communication and documentation for thousands of years, and this chapter deals with handwriting recognition as a method of entering text into a computer. Handwriting is a learned skill, but because it has a long history and is learned in early school years, many consider it more natural than the alternative learned skill of text entry by either standar...

This panel discussion was a follow-up to the first edition of the ICFHR series, which was promoted as an international conference after 10 intensive and productive editions of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition initiated in 1990 in Montreal. It is essential, however, to recall that research on handwritten character recognition began some 40 years ago, and was exp...

Document examiners are often faced with difficulties in evaluating handwriting by persons under the influence of alcohol. Although numerous articles are available on the subject of alcohol influence on handwriting quality, most of them were based on empirical data such as "few" or "increased", without any statistical evaluation. The aim of this research is to determine whether previous observat...

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...

there is probably no need for extensive exploration to believe that movable type invention had a tremendous and historical impact on expansion of science and emergence of renaissance in europe, as tens of articles and research books have already been dedicated to this fact; but the real question which requires historical explanation is how the man before invention of printing had preserved his ...

A handwriting recognition technique and a handwriting identification technique were combined and applied on anthrax-related handwritten mail. HWAI (Handwritten Address Interpretation) system interprets the address on the anthrax-related letters. The HWAI process can be modified to provide specific alphabet images which can then be used for writer identification. Micro-level feature values from ...