This survey describes the state of the art of online handwriting recognition during a period of renewed activity in the field. It is based on an extensive review of the literature, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and patents. Online versus offline recognition, digitizer technology, and handwriting properties and recognition problems are discussed. Shape recognition algorithms, preprocessing and postprocessing techniques, experimental systems, and commercial products are examined. >

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The state of the art in online handwriting recognition

Workshop participants Peter Broadwell, Silicon Graphics Inc. Stuart Card, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Rui Casteleiro, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal Steve Feiner, Columbia University Lisa Koelewyn, Boeing Computer Services Bryan Lewis, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center James S. Lipscomb, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Jock Mackiniay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Jon Meads, Bell Northern Research Roman Ormandy, Octree Software Randy Pausch, University of Virginia Michael E. Pique, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic Jim Rhyne, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Luis Serra, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Chris Shaw, University of Alberta Tim Skelly, Incredible Technologies

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SIGGRAPH '90 Workshop report: software architectures and metaphors for non-WIMP user interfaces

This work gives an overview of a new technology that is attracting growing interest in public as well as in the computer industry itself. The visible difference from other technologies is in the use of a pen or pencil as the primary means of interaction between a user and a machine, picking up the familiar pen and paper interface metaphor. From this follows a set of consequences that will be analyzed and put into context with other emerging technologies and visions.Starting with a short historical background and the technical advances that begin making Pen Computing a reality, the new paradigms created by Pen Computing will be explained and discussed. Handwriting recognition, mobility and global information access are other central topics. This is followed by a categorization and an overview of current and future systems using pens as their primary user interface component.

Pen computing: a technology overview and a vision

A trainable gesture recognizer

Hand gesture recognition has been applied to many research fields and has shown its prominent advantages in increasing the practicality of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The development of advanced...

Joonki Kim

Papers

On-Line Gesture Recognition by Feature Analysis.