NDLI: HMM-Based Lexicon-Driven and Lexicon-Free Word Recognition for Online Handwritten Indic Scripts

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bharath, A. Madhvanath, S.
Copyright Year	1979
Abstract	Research for recognizing online handwritten words in Indic scripts is at its early stages when compared to Latin and Oriental scripts. In this paper, we address this problem specifically for two major Indic scripts-Devanagari and Tamil. In contrast to previous approaches, the techniques we propose are largely data driven and script independent. We propose two different techniques for word recognition based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM): lexicon driven and lexicon free. The lexicon-driven technique models each word in the lexicon as a sequence of symbol HMMs according to a standard symbol writing order derived from the phonetic representation. The lexicon-free technique uses a novel Bag-of-Symbols representation of the handwritten word that is independent of symbol order and allows rapid pruning of the lexicon. On handwritten Devanagari word samples featuring both standard and nonstandard symbol writing orders, a combination of lexicon-driven and lexicon-free recognizers significantly outperforms either of them used in isolation. In contrast, most Tamil word samples feature the standard symbol order, and the lexicon-driven recognizer outperforms the lexicon free one as well as their combination. The best recognition accuracies obtained for 20,000 word lexicons are 87.13 percent for Devanagari when the two recognizers are combined, and 91.8 percent for Tamil using the lexicon-driven technique.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society
Page Count	13
File Size	1224087
Starting Page	670
Ending Page	682
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01628828
Volume Number	34
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-04-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Writing Hidden Markov models Feature extraction Handwriting recognition Character recognition Shape Ink Tamil. Online handwriting recognition word recognition lexicon driven lexicon free bag of symbols symbol order variation Devanagari
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Artificial Intelligence Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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