On-line handwritten digit recognition based on trajectory and velocity modeling

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 580-594

  Kherallah, Monji ^a   Haddad, Lobna ^a   Alimi, Adel M ^a   Mitiche, Amar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta velocity modeling; Digit recognition; Elliptic trajectory modeling; Handwriting modeling; Stroke overlapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SETS; MODEL CHECKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

BETA VELOCITY MODELING; DIGIT RECOGNITION; ELLIPTIC TRAJECTORY MODELING; HANDWRITING MODELING; STROKE OVERLAPPING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 39049084699     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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