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Recent Results of Online Japanese Handwriting Recognition and Its Applications

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Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition (SACH 2006)

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This paper discusses online handwriting recognition of Japanese characters, a mixture of ideographic characters (Kanji) of Chinese origin, and the phonetic characters made from them. Most Kanji character patterns are composed of multiple subpatterns, called radicals, which are shared among many (sometimes hundreds of) Kanji character patterns. This is common in Oriental languages of Chinese origin, i.e., Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is also common that each language has thousands of characters. Given these characteristics, structured character pattern representation (SCPR) composed of subpatterns is effective in terms of the size reduction of a prototype dictionary (a set of prototype patterns) and the robustness to deformation of common subpatterns. In this paper, we show a prototype learning algorithm and HMM-based recognition for SCPR. Then, we combine the SCPR-based online recognizer with a compact offline recognizer employing quadratic discriminant functions. Moreover, we also discuss online handwritten Japanese text recognition and propose character orientation-free and line direction-free handwritten text recognition and segmentation. Finally, as applications of online handwritten Japanese text recognition, we show segmentation of mixed objects of text, formulas, tables and line-drawings, and handwritten text search.

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    Masaki Nakagawa, Junko Tokuno, Bilan Zhu, Motoki Onuma, Hideto Oda & Akihito Kitadai

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Nakagawa, M., Tokuno, J., Zhu, B., Onuma, M., Oda, H., Kitadai, A. (2008). Recent Results of Online Japanese Handwriting Recognition and Its Applications. In: Doermann, D., Jaeger, S. (eds) Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition. SACH 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4768. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78199-8_11

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