Online handwriting recognition: The NPen++ recognizer

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 169-180

  Jaeger, S ^a,b   Manke, S ^a,b   Reichert, J ^a,b   Waibel, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Neural networks; Online handwriting recognition; Pattern recognition; Pen based computing

Indexed keywords

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; MULTI-STATE; ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PEN-BASED COMPUTING; PRUNING TECHNIQUES; RECOGNITION ENGINES; SEARCH SPACES; TIME DELAY NEURAL NETWORKS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0009637016     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013559     Document Type: Article

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