Recent approaches in handwriting recognition with markovian modelling and recurrent neural networks

Abstract

Handwriting recognition is challenging because of the inherent variability of character shapes. Popular approaches for handwriting recognition are markovian and neuronal. Both approaches can take as input, sequences of frames obtained by sliding a window along a word or a text-line. We present markovian (Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Hidden Markov Models) and recurrent neural network-based approaches (RNNs) dedicated to character, word and text-line recognition. These approaches are applied to the recognition of both Latin and Arabic scripts. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.