Digit Recognition
Manolis Kamvysselis
I. Introduction
Abstract
Algorithm Overview
Organization of the paper
II. Working with online data
Relation with Offline Data
Lower-dimensional online data
III. Character transformation to Angle Derivative Space
Angle derivative space
Motivation for representation
Resolving angle ambiguities
The loop ambiguity
Working with Periodic Costs
Enriching the representation
IV. Noise Reduction
Fourier methods for denoising
Brute force compression
Wavelets bring out curve features
V. Feature Selection
VI. Supervised Learning
Training gaussian mixtures
Evaluating new data
VII. Results
Good performance for long sequences
Individual character results
VIII. Applications / Future work
New characters from a distribution
Handwriting style recognition
Multi-dimensional data
Wavelets tailored to characters
IX. Unsupervised Learning
Extension to offline data
X. Conclusion
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Manolis Kamvysselis
2000-06-11