A connectionist recognizer for on-line cursive handwriting recognition
- 17 December 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Shows how the multi-state time delay neural network (MS-TDNN), which is already used successfully in continuous speech recognition tasks, can be applied both to online single character and cursive (continuous) handwriting recognition. The MS-TDNN integrates the high accuracy single character recognition capabilities of a TDNN with a non-linear time alignment procedure (dynamic time warping algorithm) for finding stroke and character boundaries in isolated, handwritten characters and words. In this approach each character is modelled by up to 3 different states and words are represented as a sequence of these characters. The authors describe the basic MS-TDNN architecture and the input features used in the paper, and present results (up to 97.7% word recognition rate) both on writer dependent/independent, single character recognition tasks and writer dependent, cursive handwriting tasks with varying vocabulary sizes up to 20000 words Author(s) Manke, S. Dept. of Comput. Sci., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany Bodenhausen, U.Keywords
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