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Author Liwicki, Marcus

Title Recognition of whiteboard notes : online, offline and combination / Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bunke
Published Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence ; v. 71
Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence ; v. 71.
Contents 1. Introduction. 1.1. Motivation. 1.2. Handwriting recognition. 1.3. Comparability of recognition results. 1.4. Related topics. 1.5. Contribution. 1.6. Ouline -- 2. Classification methods. 2.1. Hidden Markov models. 2.2. Neural networks. 2.3. Gaussian mixture models. 2.4. Language models -- 3. Linguistic resources and handwriting databases. 3.1. Linguistic resources. 3.2. IAM offline database. 3.3. IAM online database -- 4. Offline approach. 4.1. System description. 4.2. Enhancing the training set. 4.3. Experiments. 4.4. Word extraction. 4.5. Conclusions -- 5. Online approach. 5.1. Line segmentation. 5.2. Preprocessing. 5.3. Features. 5.4. HMM-based experiments. 5.5. Experiments with neural networks. 5.6. Conclusions and discussion -- 6. Multiple classifier combination. 6.1. Methodology. 6.2. Recognition systems. 6.3. Initial experiments. 6.4. Experiments with all recognition systems. 6.5. Advanced confidence measures. 6.6. Conclusions -- 7. Writer-dependent recognition. 7.1. Writer identification. 7.2. Writer-dependent experiments. 7.3. Automatic handwriting classification. 7.4. Conclusions -- 8. Conclusions. 8.1. Overview of recognition systems. 8.2. Overview of experimental results. 8.3. Concluding remarks. 8.4. Outlook
Summary "This book addresses the task of processing online handwritten notes acquired from an electronic whiteboard, which is a new modality in handwriting recognition research. The main motivation of this book is smart meeting rooms, aim to automate standard tasks usually performed by humans in a meeting." "The book can be summarized as follows. A new online handwritten database is compiled, and four handwriting recognition systems are developed. Moreover, novel preprocessing and normalization strategies are designed especially for whiteboard notes and a new neural network based recognizer is applied. Commercial recognition systems are included in a multiple classifier system."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index
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Subject Optical pattern recognition.
Writing -- Data processing
Interactive whiteboards.
Image processing -- Digital techniques.
digital imaging.
COMPUTERS -- Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition.
COMPUTERS -- Optical Data Processing.
Image processing -- Digital techniques
Interactive whiteboards
Optical pattern recognition
Writing -- Data processing
Form Electronic book
Author Bunke, Horst
ISBN 9789812814548
981281454X