Novel script line identification method for script normalization and feature extraction in on-line handwritten whiteboard note recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3383-3393

  Schenk, Joachim ^a   Lenz, Johannes ^a   Rigoll, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Line member; On line handwriting recognition; Preprocessing; Script line identification; Script normalization; Whiteboard note recognition

Indexed keywords

LINE-MEMBER; ON-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PREPROCESSING; SCRIPT LINE IDENTIFICATION; SCRIPT NORMALIZATION; WHITEBOARD NOTE RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 68249112410     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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