Constructing and reconstructing characters, words, and sentences by synthesizing writing motions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 661-670

  Fujioka, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Kano, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Nakata, Hiroaki ^c   Shinoda, Hayato ^d  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CANON INC   (Japan)

^d NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

B splines; Character reconstruction; Characters; Optimal function approximation; Robotic handwriting; Writing motion

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINES; CHARACTER RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMAL FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; ROBOTIC HANDWRITING; WRITING MOTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORD PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947134302     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851344     Document Type: Article

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