Overview
- Authors:
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Zhi-Qiang Liu
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School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, PR China
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Jinhai Cai
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School of Software Engineering & Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Richard Buse
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Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- A fresh look at the problem of unconstrained handwriting recognition from the soft computing viewpoint
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 1-15
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 17-60
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 61-88
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 89-105
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 107-129
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 131-144
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 145-172
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 173-193
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- Zhi-Qiang Liu, Jinhai Cai, Richard Buse
Pages 195-222
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Back Matter
Pages 223-230
About this book
Over the last few decades, research on handwriting recognition has made impressive progress. The research and development on handwritten word recognition are to a large degree motivated by many application areas, such as automated postal address and code reading, data acquisition in banks, text-voice conversion, security, etc. As the prices of scanners, com puters and handwriting-input devices are falling steadily, we have seen an increased demand for handwriting recognition systems and software pack ages. Some commercial handwriting recognition systems are now available in the market. Current commercial systems have an impressive performance in recognizing machine-printed characters and neatly written texts. For in stance, High-Tech Solutions in Israel has developed several products for container ID recognition, car license plate recognition and package label recognition. Xerox in the U. S. has developed TextBridge for converting hardcopy documents into electronic document files. In spite of the impressive progress, there is still a significant perfor mance gap between the human and the machine in recognizing off-line unconstrained handwritten characters and words. The difficulties encoun tered in recognizing unconstrained handwritings are mainly caused by huge variations in writing styles and the overlapping and the interconnection of neighboring characters. Furthermore, many applications demand very high recognition accuracy and reliability. For example, in the banking sector, although automated teller machines (ATMs) and networked banking sys tems are now widely available, many transactions are still carried out in the form of cheques.
