Preface

List of References

Introduction

Recent advances in off-line handwriting recognition at CEDAR

S. N. Srihari

Word Recognition

Recognition of cursively handwritten words using a combined normalization/perturbation approach

G. Kaufmann

H. Bunke

T. M. Ha

Cursive handwriting: off-line versus on-line recognition

R. Seiler

M. Schenkel

F. Eggimann

Coarse writing-style clustering based on simple stroke-related features

L. Vuurpijl

L. Schomaker

Real-time handwritten word recognition within large lexicons

M. Gilloux

Handwriting synthesis from handwritten glyphs

I. Guyon

Character model word recognition

J. T. Favata

Zone-estimation for multiple lines of handwriting using approximating spline functions

A. Henning

N. Sherkat

R. J. Whitrow

Semi-automatic determination of allograph duration and position in on-line handwritten words based on the expected number of strokes

J. Mackowiak

L. Schomaker

L. Vuurpijl

Recognition of unconstrained handwritten words using Markov random fields and HMMs

G. A. Saon

A. Belaid

A unified network-based approach for on-line recognition of multi-lingual cursive handwritings

J. J. Lee

J. H. Kim

Word level handwriting recognition by a multi-agents approach - Application to the recognition of handwritten bank check amounts

D. Ollivier

L. Montoliu

M. Weinfeld

Character Recognition

Class-expert approach to unconstrained handwritten numeral recognition

I. S. Oh

J. S. Lee

K. C. Hong

S. M. Choi

Recognizing handwritten numbers by Hidden Markov Models and polynomial classifiers

V. Stampa

T. Caesar

J. M. Gloger

A. Kaltenmeier

E. Mandler

On-line handwritten character recognition system based on hierarchical qualitative fuzzy modeling

E. Anquetil

G. Lorette

Handwritten Chinese character recognition based on a new structure representation approach

X. H. Xiao

H. W. Hao

R. W. Dai

Off-line recognition of unconstrained handwritten character using decision tree classifier

Y. Chang

N. Han

H. Ryu

P. K. Rhee

A radical-based OCR system for handwritten Chinese character recognition

A. B. Wang

K. C. Fan

On-line Japanese character recognition based on flexible pattern matching with stroke information

M. Hamanaka

K. Yamada

Hand printed characters recognition using machine learning

A. Amin

P. Compton

Recognition of handwritten digits using deformable models

K. W. Cheung

D. Y. Yeung

R. T. Chin

Feature Extraction

A truly 2-D statistical model for off-line handwritten character recognition

H. S. Park

S. W. Lee

Preprocessing and statistical/structural feature extraction for handwritten numeral recognition

C. L. Liu

Y. J. Liu

R. W. Dai

Detection of extreme points of on-line handwritten scripts

X.Li M. Parizeau

R. Plamondon

Multi-stroke relaxation matching method for handwritten Chinese character recognition

F. H. Cheng

Pre-segmentation points: an analysis of features

B. Eastwood

A. Jennings

Pre-processing the dynamics of on-line handwriting data, feature extraction and recognition

H. S. Beigi

A thalamocortical algorithm that performs handwritten character recognition

B. Aleksandrovsky

J. Whitson

A. Garzotto

G. Lynch

R. Granger

An application of feature selection based on neural network pruning to handwritten character recognition

K. Chung

Y. Shin

J. Yoon

Structural stroke extraction from off-line handwritten Chinese characters

H. J. Lee

H. H. Liu

Re-naming primitives for fast decision tree classification

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Horizontal segments and peripheral features for use in coarse classification of Chinese characters

K. S. Chou

K. C. Fan

T. I. Fan

Statistical Approaches

Improving recognition rates by classifier combination: a theoretical framework

J. Kittler

A novel neural net-based system and process for constructing optimized prototypes for character recognition

Y. S. Huang

K. Liu

C. Y. Suen et al.

Contextual processing for handwritten forms: a multi-level hypotheses verification approach with lazy evaluation

L. Du

S. M. Lucas

A. C. Downton

What size test set gives good error rate estimates?

I. Guyon

V. Vapnik

J. Makhoul

R. Schwartz

A new reject decision method for statistical pattern recognition

K. Akiyama

Multi-experts

Practical combination of multiple classifiers

N. Gorski

Study on multi-expert systems for handprinted numeral recognition

S. Yamaguchi

K. Nagata

T. Tsutsumida

F. Kimura

A. Iwata

Multi expert system for handprint recognition

R. Lindwurm

T. Breuer

K. Kreuzer

The third IPTP character recognition competition and study on multi-expert systems for handwritten Kanji recognition

T. Tsutsumida

F. Kawamata

S. Yamaguchi

K. Nagata

T. Wakahara

A network integration method for handwritten Chinese character recognition

H. W. Hao

J. W. Tai

X. H. Xiao

Modes and measures: a framework for design of parallel word classifier combination schemes

S. Madhvanath

S. N. Srihari

Optimising handwritten character recognition by neural network cascade

A. Amiri

L. Du

A. C. Downton

S. M. Lucas

S. L. Goh

A new approach to handwritten character recognition using multiple experts

A. F. R. Rahman

M. C. Fairhurst

Classifiers

Multiple experts: a new methodology for the evaluation of the combination processes

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Coping with ambiguity and error in cursive script recognition

G. J. Bellaby

L. J. Evett

R. K. Powalka

Improving scanning N-tuple classifiers by pre-transforming training data

S. M. Lucas

On-line Chinese signature verification by matching dynamic and structural features with a quasi-relaxation approach

X. H. Xiao

R. W. Dai

A coarse classification of on-line handwritten Japanese characters

M. Nakagawa

T. Oguni

A. Homma

A new multi-expert system for handwritten digit recognition

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Future Trends

The role of handwriting recognition in future reading systems

N. Bartneck

Theme on on-line handwriting character recognition method and string separation method using language processing

M. Okamoto

H. Yamamoto

T. Yosikawa

H. Horii

K. Toyokura

K. Yamamoto

Off-line handwritten sentence recognition

J. T. Favata

S. N. Srihari

V. Govindaraju

Progressive lexicon reduction for on-line handwriting

A. Leroy

Symbol segmentation and recognition for understanding handwritten mathematical expressions

H. -J. Winkler

M. Lang

A hybrid approach of automatic fuzzy rule generation for handwriting recognition

A. Malaviya

C. Leja

L. Peters

Bankcheck recognition systems: re-engineering the design process

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Post-Processing

Search issues in the IBM large vocabulary unconstrained handwriting recognizer

E. H. Ratzlaff

K. S. Nathan

H. Maruyama

A fast search technique for large vocabulary on-line handwriting recognition

S. Manke

M. Finke

A. Waibel

Effective reduction of large lexicons for recognition of offline cursive script

S. Madhavanath

S. N. Srihari

Capturing directed influence in linguistic post processing: experimental results

V. Krpasundar

R. Srihari

Reading Systems

A robust approach to extract user entered information from personal bank checks

M. Okada

M. Shridhar

Robust recognition system for reading Korean tax receipts

J. Paik

K. Lee

Y. Lee

Processing of date information on cheques

R. Fan

L. Lam

C. Y. Suen

Tools for the forensic examination of handwritten documents

S. W. Chong

C. G. Leedham

V. K. Sagar

Investigating on human behaviour in selecting classes of handwritten numerals

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Removing underlines from handwritten text: an experimental investigation

G. Dimauro

S. Impedovo

G. Pirlo

A. Salzo

Computer aided graphology

G. Sheikholeslami

S. N. Srihari

V. Govindaraju

Hypotheses generation for word separation in handwritten lines

U. Mahadevan

S. N. Srihari

Segmentation and recognition of connected handwritten numeral strings

Z. Shi

V. Govindaraju

Towards a hierarchical segmentation of on-line cursive script

C. De Stefano

A. Iuliano

A. Marcelli

A technique for local baseline determination

S. Madhvanath

S. N. Srihari

Applications

Extension of a handwritten word recognition method to street name images

G. Kim

V. Govindaraju

S. N. Srihari

Improving the recognition rate of handwritten Australian postcodes using low-level features

P. E. Jones

Algorithms for matching hand-drawn sketches

D. Lopresti

A. Tomkins

J. Zhou

Handwritten address interpretation using extended lexicon word matching

F. Kimura

M. Shridhar

A successful technique for unconstrained hand-written line segmentation

F. Venturelli

Zs. M. Kovacs-Vajna

Writer identification by computer imitating human identification procedure

S. Nozawa

T. Takeshita

A locally adaptive binary-tree method for binarization of text images

D. T. Dimov

G. Y. Gluhchev

A fractal analysis of handwritten texts

N. Vincent

V. Bouletreau

H. Emptoz

Enrolment validation in optimisation of practical signature verification procedures

M. C. Fairhurst

C. Allgrove

Stroke extraction from gray-scale character image

J. W. Suh

J. H. Kim

An object-oriented system for the development of classifiers

J. Franke

T. Caesar

On-line signature verification by IIR system

T. Matsuura

T. S. Yu

New skew detection and correction algorithms

A. Amin

R. Shiu

Recognition of cursive writing on personal checks