'Online recognition of Chinese characters: the state-of-the-art
Liu, C.-L.
Jaeger, S.
Nakagawa, M.
Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan;
This paper appears in: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Feb. 2004
Volume: 26,
Issue: 2
On page(s): 198-213
ISSN: 0162-8828
INSPEC Accession Number: 7950566
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.1262182
Current Version Published: 2004-06-28
Abstract
Online handwriting recognition is gaining renewed interest owing to the increase of pen computing applications and new pen input devices. The recognition of Chinese characters is different from western handwriting recognition and poses a special challenge. To provide an overview of the technical status and inspire future research, this paper reviews the advances in online Chinese character recognition (OLCCR), with emphasis on the research works from the 1990s. Compared to the research in the 1980s, the research efforts in the 1990s aimed to further relax the constraints of handwriting, namely, the adherence to standard stroke orders and stroke numbers and the restriction of recognition to isolated characters only. The target of recognition has shifted from regular script to fluent script in order to better meet the requirements of practical applications. The research works are reviewed in terms of pattern representation, character classification, learning/adaptation, and contextual processing. We compare important results and discuss possible directions of future research.
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