Advances in Handwriting Recognition

Advances in Handwriting Recognition contains selected key papers from the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR '98), held in Taejon, Korea from 12 to 14, August 1998. Most of the papers have been expanded or extensively revised to include helpful discussions, suggestions or comments made during the workshop. Contents:On-Line Hand Writing Recognition by Discrete HMM with Fast Learning (H Yasuda et al.)Diacritical Processing Using Efficient Accounting Procedures in a Forward Search (G Seni & J Seybold)A Handwritten Form Reader Architecture (C Cracknell & A C Downton)Combining Different Classifiers and Level of Knowledge: A First Step Towards an Adaptive Recognition System (D Ollivier et al.)Architecture for Handwritten Text Recognition Systems (G Kim et al.)Search Algorithms for the Recognition of Cursive Phrases Without World Segmentation (C Scagliola)A Method for the Determination of Features Used in Human Reading of Cursive Handwriting (L Schomaker & E Segers)Global Methods for Stroke Segmentation (Y Nakajima et al.)An Advanced Segmentation Technique for Cursive Word Recognition (G Dimauro et al.)Document Understanding Based on Maximum a Posteriori Probability Estimation (T Akagi & H Mizutani)Combining Shape Matrices and HMMs for Hand-Drawn Pictogram Recognition (S Muller et al.)and other papers Readership: Researchers and graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering. Keywords:Handwriting Recognition;Character Recognition;Document Analysis and Recognition;OCR (Optical Character Recognition);Online Recognition;Offline Recognition;Pen-Computing