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In this work we propose two novel vector quantization (VQ) designs for discrete HMM-based on-line handwriting recognition of whiteboard notes. Both VQ designs represent the binary pressure information without any loss. The new designs are necessary because standard k-means VQ systems cannot quantize this binary feature adequately, as is shown in this paper.
Our experiments show that the new systems provide a relative improvement of r = 1.8 % in recognition accuracy on a character- and r = 3.3 % on a word-level benchmark compared to a standard k-means VQ system. Additionally, our system is compared and proven to be competitive to a state-of-the-art continuous HMM-based system yielding a slight relative improvement of r = 0.6 %.
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Schenk, J., Schwärzler, S., Ruske, G., Rigoll, G. (2008). Novel VQ Designs for Discrete HMM On-Line Handwritten Whiteboard Note Recognition. In: Rigoll, G. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5096. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69321-5_24
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