Title
Recovery of drawing order from multi-stroke English handwritten images based on graph models and ambiguous zone analysis.
Abstract
Recovering the drawing orders in static multi-stroke handwritten images.Simultaneously separating strokes and finding the smoothest path for each stroke.Using graph models with a new cost function.Detecting touches and crossings of stroke parts to determine the continuity.Using un-smoothness and double-traced segments to break the stroke. Recovery of the drawing order of strokes in a handwritten image can be seen as searching for the smoothest path for each stroke on an undirected graph that is constructed from the skeleton of the handwritten image. However, this requires correcting for separating strokes, and detecting starting points. Moreover, ambiguousness at junction points increases the complexity of finding the smoothest paths. In order to resolve these issues, an effective approach that can simultaneously detect the points to separate strokes and find the optimal path for each stroke is proposed. To reduce the complexity of the problem, the skeleton graph of the handwritten image is used, and touching characters or crossing strokes are separated. Touches or crossings of stroke parts at ambiguous zones are detected and the smoothness values are adjusted to improve the accuracy. The greedy algorithm and Dijkstra'salgorithm with a well-defined function of smoothness are applied in searching the optimal path. The nature of the recovery is increased when the optimal path is split into many strokes by using the curvatures of the edges, the un-smoothness between edges and the appearance of double-traced edges. Finally, pixel sequences of strokes are extracted and ordered by using rules of handwriting. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through low error rates of pixel sequence comparison and high accuracy of online recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.eswa.2016.08.017
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-stroke handwriting,Static handwritten image,Drawing order,Trajectory recovery,Smoothest path
Computer vision,Graph,Handwriting,Computer science,Greedy algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Smoothness,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
C
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minh Dinh130.40
Hyungjeong Yang245547.05
Gueesang Lee320852.71
Soo-Hyung Kim419149.03
Luu Ngoc Do5101.96