Title

A practical approach for writer-dependent symbol recognition using a writer-independent symbol recognizer

Authors

Authors

J. J. LaViola;R. Zeleznik

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.

Keywords

handwriting recognition; AdaBoost; writer dependence; writer; independence; pairwise classification; real-time systems; ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; CHARACTER-RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; ART; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Engineering, Electrical &; Electronic

Abstract

We present a practical technique for using a writer-independent recognition engine to improve the accuracy and speed while reducing the training requirements of a writer-dependent symbol recognizer. Our writer-dependent recognizer uses a set of binary classifiers based on the AdaBoost learning algorithm, one for each possible pairwise symbol comparison. Each classifier consists of a set of weak learners, one of which is based on a writer-independent handwriting recognizer. During online recognition, we also use the n-best list of the writer-independent recognizer to prune the set of possible symbols and, thus, reduce the number of required binary classifications. In this paper, we describe the geometric and statistical features used in our recognizer and our all-pairs classification algorithm. We also present the results of experiments that quantify the effect incorporating a writer-independent recognition engine into a writer-dependent recognizer has on accuracy, speed, and user training time.

Journal Title

Ieee Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volume

29

Issue/Number

11

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1917

Last Page

1926

WOS Identifier

WOS:000249343900004

ISSN

0162-8828

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