Handwriting recognition 2007 (KIM.SCHR03)
Period 2b (block 4): April 23 - July 6, 2007.Goal
In this course you learn how an automatic handwriting recognizer works. During the course, you will work on the final assignment: make a recognizer for separate words in historical handwriting. This is the handwriting from the "Queen's Cabinet" (Kabinet der Koningin) at the Dutch National Archive (Nationaal Archief) in The Hague.Several smaller assignments are steps towards the final assignment. You can train your program using a set of page images with word labels, while your recognizer program is tested using a separate test set. The word labels for the train and test sets are manually created by you and your fellow students in a joint effort.
Programming is done in a combination of Python and C++. Basic C++ knowledge is assumed and Python is almost self-explanatory. Therefore, this course does not provide an introduction of these languages. Practical assistance is available, though, and internet provides a wealth of help, for example in the Python tutorial.
