On-line writer dependent character recognition for Khmer based on FIR system characterizing handwriting motion

Abstract

We proposed an on-line writer dependent Khmer recognition method based on FIR system characterizing hand-writing motion. The handwriting motion can be described by two features, barycenter trajectory and its velocity. The barycenter is determined from the center point of the script and the two adjacent pen-point positions with respect to time in handwriting process. Then the barycenter and its velocity are expanded into wavelet series to extract the time-frequency characteristics of handwriting motion. In this paper, the FIR(finite impulse response) system characterizing the handwriting motion is introduced. In this case, the wavelet coefficients of the velocity and trajectory of the barycenter are used as the input and output of the FIR system, respectively. The obtained impulse response of the FIR system is considered as the individual feature for a particular character. Finally, Khmer alphabets can be recognized by using the Euclidean distance between the impulse responses obtained from the reference alphabets and those of the alphabets to be recognized. Khmer character recognition experiments were performed on a database consisting of 4770 of numerals and alphabets written by 15 people. As the results, the average of the recognition rate was 97.05%.