Segmentation and reconstruction of on-line handwritten scripts

Abstract On-line handwritten scripts consist of sequences of components that are pen tip traces from pen-down to pen-up positions. This paper presents a segmentation and reconstruction procedure which segments components of a script into sequences of static strokes, and then reconstructs the script from these sequences. The segmentation is based on the extrema of curvature and inflection points in individual components. The static strokes are derived from the delta log-normal model of handwriting generation and are used in component representation and reconstruction. The performance of the procedure is measured in terms of root-mean-square reconstruction error and data compression rate.

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