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One of the major difficulties of handwriting recognition is the variability among symbols because of the different writer styles. In this paper we introduce the boosting of blurred shape models with error correction, which is a robust approach for describing and recognizing handwritten symbols tolerant to this variability. A symbol is described by a probability density function of blurred shape model that encodes the probability of pixel densities of image regions. Then, to learn the most distinctive features among symbol classes, boosting techniques are used to maximize the separability among the blurred shape models. Finally, the set of binary boosting classifiers is embedded in the framework of Error Correcting Output Codes (ECOC). Our approach has been evaluated in two benchmarking scenarios consisting of handwritten symbols. Compared with state-of-the-art descriptors, our method shows higher tolerance to the irregular deformations induced by handwritten strokes.
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Fornés, A., Escalera, S., LLadós, J., Sánchez, G., Radeva, P., Pujol, O. (2007). Handwritten Symbol Recognition by a Boosted Blurred Shape Model with Error Correction. In: Martí, J., Benedí, J.M., Mendonça, A.M., Serrat, J. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72847-4_4
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