Online and offline handwritten Chinese character recognition: A comprehensive study and new benchmark

作者:

Highlights:

• Comprehensive study of handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR).

• New benchmarks for both online and offline HCCR under a general framework.

• Combination of convNet and domain-specific knowledge of directMap.

• Writer adaptation of deep convolutional neural networks.

• State-of-the-art performance on the ICDAR-2013 competition database.

摘要

Highlights•Comprehensive study of handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR).•New benchmarks for both online and offline HCCR under a general framework.•Combination of convNet and domain-specific knowledge of directMap.•Writer adaptation of deep convolutional neural networks.•State-of-the-art performance on the ICDAR-2013 competition database.

论文关键词:Handwriting recognition,Chinese characters,Online,Offline,Directional feature map,Convolutional neural network,Adaptation

论文评审过程:Received 30 April 2016, Revised 5 August 2016, Accepted 6 August 2016, Available online 9 August 2016, Version of Record 21 August 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.08.005