Schriftherkenning
Automatic Script Recognition

• Lectures
  • Introduction
  • History of scripts
  • Human writing process
  • Human reading process
  • Pattern Classification (crash course)
  • On-line recognition (for pen computers)
    • Demo's in Java: preprocessing of on-line handwriting signals
    • Description of an on-line recognizer of cursive words (Schomaker et al.)
  • Off-line recognition (for optical scanners)
  • Language and context modeling
  • Writer identification / signature verification
  • Experimentation and Evaluation of HWR systems

• Articles
  • [all articles]
  • Schomaker, L.R.B. (1998). From handwriting analysis to pen-computer applications. IEE Electronics Communication Engineering Journal, 10(3), pp. 93-102.
  • Bunke, H. (2003). Recognition of Cursive Roman Handwriting Past, Present and Future, Invited Lecture at ICDAR 2003

• Applets
  • Jrec java applet, simple "off-line (=optical)" digit classification demo by Bob Mitchell