RECOGNITION METHOD FOR CURSIVE JAPANESE WORD WRITTEN IN LATIN CHARACTERS

Kenichi MARUYAMA and Yasuaki NAKANO

Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu University
4--17--1 Wakasato, Nagano, 380--8553, Japan
E­mail: fzmaru, nakanog@cs.shinshu­u.ac.jp

This paper proposes a recognition method for cursive Japanese words written in Latin characters. The method integrates multiple classifiers using duplicated can­ didates in multiple classifiers and orders of classifiers to improve the word recog­ nition rate combining their results. In experiments using two classifiers, the word recognition rate was 68.4%, and the cumulative recognition rate among the ten best candidates was 92.5%.

In: L.R.B. Schomaker and L.G. Vuurpijl (Eds.)
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers
in Handwriting Recognition, September 11-13 2000, Amsterdam,
Nijmegen: International Unipen Foundation,
ISBN 90-76942-01-3
pp. 133-142.