Proceedings of the
Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
September 11-13 2000, Amsterdam

Edited by L.R.B. Schomaker and L.G. Vuurpijl

Full Papers
CROSS­DOMAIN SEARCHING USING HANDWRITTEN QUERIES
D. LOPRESTI, G. WILFONG

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ADAPTIVE CHARACTER RECOGNIZER FOR A HAND­HELD DEVICE: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION SETUP
Vuokko VUORI, Matti AKSELA, Jorma LAAKSONEN, Erkki OJA

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ON­LINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLED BY HANDWRITING QUALITY
Masahiko HAMANAKA and Keiji YAMADA

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INTER-LINE DISTANCE ESTIMATION AND TEXT LINE EXTRACTION FOR UNCONSTRAINED ONLINE HANDWRITING
Eugene H. RATZLAFF

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LINE REMOVAL AND CHARACTER RESTORATION USING BAG REPRESENTATION OF FORM IMAGES
Soo Hyung KIM, Seon H. JEON and Hee K. KWAG

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SLANT ESTIMATION FOR HANDWRITTEN WORDS BY DIRECTIONALLY REFINED CHAIN CODE
Yimei DING, Fumitaka KIMURA, Yasuji MIYAKE
Malayappan SHRIDHAR

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A GENERIC SYSTEM TO EXTRACT AND CLEAN HANDWRITTEN DATA FROM BUSINESS FORMS
Xiangyun YE Mohamed CHERIET and Ching Y. SUEN

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A FRAMEWORK FOR DOCUMENT PRE-PROCESSING IN FORENSIC HANDWRITING ANALYSIS
Katrin FRANKE and Mario KÖPPEN

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BACKGROUND ELIMINATION IN BANK CHECKS USING GREYSCALE MORPHOLOGY
Santhosh SHETTY , M. SHRIDHAR and Gilles HOULE

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STROKE LEVEL MODELING OF ON LINE HANDWRITING THROUGH MULTI­MODAL SEGMENTAL MODELS
T. ARTIÈRES , J­M. MARCHAND, P. GALLINARI and B. DORIZZI

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FEATURE SELECTION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION
Gyeonghwan KIM and Sekwang KIM

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A NEW STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING FEATURE SETS IN A DISCRETE HMM­BASED HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM
F. GRANDIDIER, R. SABOURIN, C.Y. SUEN and M. GILLOUX

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ON THE REJECTION ABILITY REQUIRED IN MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TECHNIQUES
Hiroshi SAKO, Tatsuhiko KAGEHIRO and Hiromichi FUJISAWA

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RECOGNITION METHOD FOR CURSIVE JAPANESE WORD WRITTEN IN LATIN CHARACTERS
Kenichi MARUYAMA and Yasuaki NAKANO

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CLASSIFIER COMBINATION: THE ROLE OF A­PRIORI KNOWLEDGE
V.DI LECCE , G.DIMAURO , A.GUERRIERO , S.IMPEDOVO , G.PIRLO , A.SALZO

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IMPROVEMENT OF RECOGNITION ACCURACY USING 2­STAGE CLASSIFICATION
Kr. IANAKIEV and V. GOVINDARAJU

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RECOGNITION AND VERIFICATION OF TOUCHING HANDWRITTEN NUMERALS
Jie ZHOU, Adam KRZYZAK, Ching Y. SUEN

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RESULTS FROM A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HANDWRITTEN ADDRESS RECOGNITION SYSTEMS FOR THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Donald P. D'AMATO, EDWARD J. KUEBERT AND ALFRED LAWSON

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A NEW HYBRID APPROACH FOR LEGAL AMOUNT RECOGNITION
V.DI LECCE , G.DIMAURO , A.GUERRIERO , S.IMPEDOVO , G.PIRLO , A.SALZO

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HMM BASED HIGH ACCURACY OFF-LINE CURSIVE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION BY A BASELINE DETECTION ERROR TOLERANT FEATURE EXTRACTION APPROACH
W. WANG, A. BRAKENSIEK, A. KOSMALA, G. RIGOLL

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VERIFICATION OF GRAPHEMES USING NEURAL NETWORKS IN AN HMM­BASED ON­LINE KOREAN HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM
Sung J. CHO, Jahwan KIM, AND Jin H. KIM

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K­MEANS CLUSTERING FOR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
Michael P. PERRONE and Scott D. CONNELL

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DATA DRIVEN DESIGN OF HMM TOPOLOGY FOR ON­LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
Jay J. LEE, Jahwan KIM, and Jin H. KIM

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NPEN++: AN ON-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM
S. JAEGER, S. MANKE, A. WAIBEL

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TWO TREE­FORMATION METHODS AND FAST PATTERN SEARCH USING NEAREST NEIGHBOR AND NEAREST­CENTROID MATCHING
L. SCHOMAKER , D. MANGALAGIU , L. VUURPIJL , M. WEINFELD

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ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT OF HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION BY GLVQ
Tsuyoshi FUKUMOTO, Tetsushi WAKABAYASHI, Fumitaka KIMURA, and Yasuji MIYAKE

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GENERATING NEW SAMPLES FROM HANDWRITTEN NUMERALS BASED ON POINT CORRESPONDENCE
Minoru MORI, Akira SUZUKI, Akio SHIO, and Sakuichi OHTSUKA

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ON THE COMPLEXITY OF COGNITION
S. JAEGER

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From Off-line to On-line Handwriting Recognition
P.M. LALLICAN , C. VIARD-GAUDIN , S. KNERR

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A FAST LEXICALLY CONSTRAINED VITERBI ALGORITHM FOR ON­ LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

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IMPROVEMENT IN HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL STRING RECOGNITION BY SLANT NORMALIZATION AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Alceu de S. BRITTO JR., Robert SABOURIN, Edouard LETHELIER, Flavio BORTOLOZZI and Ching Y. SUEN

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MULTIPLE FEATURE INTEGRATION FOR WRITER VERIFICATION
Sung­Hyuk CHA and Sargur N. SRIHARI

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OFF-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION USING VARIOUS HYBRID MODELING TECHNIQUES AND CHARACTER N-GRAMS
A. BRAKENSIEK, J. ROTTLAND, A. KOSMALA, G. RIGOLL

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NEURAL NETWORK­BASED CONTEXT DRIVEN RECOGNITION OF ON­LINE CURSIVE SCRIPT
Predrag NESKOVIC and Leon N. COOPER

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ENHANCING CURSIVE WORD RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE BY THE INTEGRATION OF ALL THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION
C. SCAGLIOLA, G. NICCHIOTTI, F. CAMASTRA

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WORD LEXICON REDUCTION BY CHARACTER SPOTTING
Didier GUILLEVIC, Daisuke NISHIWAKI, Keiji YAMADA

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QUANTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF LANGUAGE MODELING TO WRITER­INDEPENDENT ON­LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
John F. PITRELLI and Eugene H. RATZLAFF

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WORD LEVEL DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING
FOR HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION
Wen-Tsong CHEN and Paul GADER

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ACTIVE HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION
Jaehwa PARK and Venu GOVINDARAJU

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HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION USING A MULTIPLE­AGENT ARCHITECTURE TO ADAPT THE RECOGNITION TASK
L. HEUTTE, T. PAQUET, A. NOSARY AND C. HERNOUX

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TWO-STAGE CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION: A COMBINED APPROACH OF CLUSTERING AND SUPPORT VECTOR CLASSIFIERS
Louis VUURPIJL and Lambert SCHOMAKER

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HYBRID SCHEMES OF HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS CLASSIFIERS FOR CURSIVE WORD RECOGNITION
Jin Ho KIM , Kye Kyung KIM and Ching Y. SUEN

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VARIANTS OF THE BORDA COUNT METHOD FOR COMBINING RANKED CLASSIFIER HYPOTHESES
Merijn van ERP and Lambert SCHOMAKER

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CASCADING MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS AND REPRESENTATIONS FOR OPTICAL AND PEN-BASED HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION
E. ALPAYDIN, C. KAYNAK, F. ALIMOGLU

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Short Papers
UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITING RECOGNITION: LANGUAGE MODELS, PERPLEXITY, AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
U.-V. MARTI and H. BUNKE

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ADAPTIVE CONTEXT PROCESSING IN ON-LINE HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION
Naomi IWAYAMA and Kazushi ISHIGAKI

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF LINGUISTIC CONTEXT IN AUTOMATIC CURSIVE SCRIPT RECOGNITION
N.H. BRAMMALL, J.H. CONNOLLY and C.J. HINDE

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A METHOD FOR HANDWRITING INPUT AND CORRECTION ON SMARTPHONES
Gareth LOUDON, Olle PELLIJEFF, Li ZHONG­WEI

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ANALYTIC WORD RECOGNITION WITHOUT SEGMENTATION BASED ON MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS
Christophe CHOISY and Abdel BELAID

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OFF-LINE CURSIVE SCRIPT RECOGNITION BASED ON CONTINUOUS DENSITY HMM
A.VINCIARELLI and J.LUETTIN

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A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE CURSIVE WORD SEGMENTATION METHOD
G.NICCHIOTTI, C.SCAGLIOLA

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THE SEGMENTATION OF A TEXT LINE FOR A HANDWRITTEN UNCONSTRAINED DOCUMENT USING THINING ALGORITHM
Shinji TSURUOKA, Yusuke ADACHI and Tomohiro YOSHIKAWA

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AN APPROACH FOR ACTIVE SEGMENTATION OF UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITTEN KOREAN STRINGS USING RUN-LENGTH CODE
Jason JeongSuk YOON and Gyeonghwan KIM

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A NEW METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC HANDWRITING QUALITY MEASUREMENT
Jeong-Seon Park, Seong-Whan Lee

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GLOBAL AND STRICT CURVE FITTING METHOD
Y. NAKAJIMA and S.MORI

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A SPECIAL SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHM FOR CURSIVE WORDS
Tal STEINHERZ, Nathan INTRATOR and Ehud RIVLIN

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A FRACTAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE NORMALIZATION STEP FOR ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
N. VINCENT and B. DORIZZI

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SIMILARITY MEASURES FOR WRITER CLUSTERING
Jayashree SUBRAHMONIA

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NOVEL RULE-BASED STATIC AND DYNAMIC FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM FIGURE COPYING TASKS FOR THE DETECTION OF VISUO-SPATIAL NEGLECT
R.M. GUEST, M.C. FAIRHURST and J.M. POTTER

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A PERTURBATION­BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI­CLASSIFIER SYSTEM DESIGN
V.DI LECCE , G.DIMAURO , A.GUERRIERO , S.IMPEDOVO , G.PIRLO , A.SALZO

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WORD­MATCHING METHOD BASED ON THE PROJECTION OF THE VOTING MATRIX
T. AKAGI, T. HAMAMURA, H. MIZUTANI, B. IRIE

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ENROLMENT MODEL STABILITY IN STATIC SIGNATURE VERIFICATION
C. ALLGROVE and M.C. FAIRHURST

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RAPID ANALYTICAL VERIFICATION OF HANDWRITTEN ALPHANUMERIC ADDRESS FIELDS
C. K. LEE and G. LEEDHAM

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A NEW APPROACH TO SEGMENT HANDWRITTEN DIGITS
L. S. Oliveira , E. Lethelier , F. Bortolozzi , and R. Sabourin

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ZONING DESIGN FOR HAND­WRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION
V.DI LECCE , G.DIMAURO , A.GUERRIERO , S.IMPEDOVO , G.PIRLO , A.SALZO

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CHARACTER RECOGNITION BY MATCHING SEQUENCES OF PSEUDO­STROKE POSITIONS AND DIRECTIONS
Hanhong XUE and Venu GOVINDARAJU

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A MOVING WINDOW CLASSIFIER FOR OFF­LINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION
M. S. HOQUE, M. C. FAIRHURST

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DATABASES FOR RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN ARABIC CHEQUES
Yousef AL­OHALI, Mohamed CHERIET and Ching Y. SUEN

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Invited Lectures

RECOLLECTIONS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH PROFESSOR J.C. SIMON
[INVITED LECTURE / ABSTRACT]
Theo PAVLIDIS

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READING RESEARCH IN MOTION
[INVITED LECTURE / ABSTRACT]
Angelique W. HENDRIKS

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