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RECOGNITION OF WHITEBOARD NOTES: ONLINE, OFFLINE AND COMBINATION: 71 Illustrated Edition
Author(s): BUNKE HORST & LIWICKI MARCUS (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2008
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789812814531
- ISBN-13: 9812814531
Book Description
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. This 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. The experimental results on the test set show a highly significant improvement of the recognition performance to more than 86 percent.
