... short answer evaluation as there are no methods currently available for evaluating descriptive answers. Suwanwiwat et al. [5] proposed an off-line restricted set for handwritten word recognition for automated student identification through ...

The series of International Workshops on Frontiers in Handwriting Recog nition and International Conferences on Document Analysis and Recognition together with some special issues of several journals are now fulfilling the expectations of ...

This text provides a comprehensive overview of the application of Markov models in the field of handwriting recognition, covering both hidden Markov models and Markov-chain or n-gram models.

This book presents 17 selected papers from the 4th International Graphonomics Society Conference, held at the University of Trondheim (Norway) in July 1989.

... handwriting recognition , due to large variations involved in cursive scripts . This paper describes a method for off - line unconstrained handwriting segmentation , based on a combined use of con- tour and skeleton derived information ...

In fact, the extraordinary advances in the field of data acquisition technology and the promising results of the research, nowadays make possible the development of commercial systems for processing and recognition of handwritten documents ...

Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances provides cutting-edge pattern recognition techniques and applications.

Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition contains selected key papers from the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR '98), held in Taejon, Korea from 12 to 14, August 1998.

This book has the primary goal of presenting and discussing some recent advances and ongoing developments in the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) field, resulting from works done on different HTR-related topics for the achievement of more ...