Handwriting Recognition: Soft Computing and Probabilistic Approaches (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 133)

Liu, Zhi-Qiang; Cai, Jin-Hai; Buse, Richard

ISBN 10: 3642072801 / ISBN 13: 9783642072802

Verlag: Springer, 2010

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9783642072802_new

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Over the last few decades, research on handwriting recognition has made impressive progress. The research and development on handwritten word recognition are to a large degree motivated by many application areas, such as automated postal address and code reading, data acquisition in banks, text-voice conversion, security, etc. As the prices of scanners, com­ puters and handwriting-input devices are falling steadily, we have seen an increased demand for handwriting recognition systems and software pack­ ages. Some commercial handwriting recognition systems are now available in the market. Current commercial systems have an impressive performance in recognizing machine-printed characters and neatly written texts. For in­ stance, High-Tech Solutions in Israel has developed several products for container ID recognition, car license plate recognition and package label recognition. Xerox in the U. S. has developed TextBridge for converting hardcopy documents into electronic document files. In spite of the impressive progress, there is still a significant perfor­ mance gap between the human and the machine in recognizing off-line unconstrained handwritten characters and words. The difficulties encoun­ tered in recognizing unconstrained handwritings are mainly caused by huge variations in writing styles and the overlapping and the interconnection of neighboring characters. Furthermore, many applications demand very high recognition accuracy and reliability. For example, in the banking sector, although automated teller machines (ATMs) and networked banking sys­ tems are now widely available, many transactions are still carried out in the form of cheques.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Prof. Jia ZENG is currently working at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China. Before that, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University from 2009 to 2010 and a Research Fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2008. He obtained Ph.D. from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in October 2006, and B.Eng. with excellent academic honors at Wuhan University of Technology, China in 2002. His research interests have been mainly in the areas of type-2 fuzzy systems, probabilistic graphical models, pattern recognition and computational biology. He has authored and co-authored a number of publications appearing in high-profile journals and leading conferences. He won the 2006 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest, Second Prize, IEEE Region 10 and 2005 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest, First Prize, IEEE Region 10, respectively. He has also been invited to serve in a number of journals and conferences as the reviewer. Prof Zhi-Qiang LIU received the M.A.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Institute for Aerospace Studies, the University of Toronto, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Alberta, Canada. He is currently at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He has taught computer architecture, computer networks, artificial intelligence, programming languages, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer graphics, and art & technology. His interests are neural-fuzzy systems, machine learning, media computing and computer vision.

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Titel: Handwriting Recognition: Soft Computing and ...
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New