5/1/2007
3:00pm-4:00pm
MUEN D428
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Computer Processing of Handwriting in Documents
University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
Handwriting is a natural means of recording personal information and continues
to be used in education. Even with the ubiquity of computers, handwriting is
used in forms, in legal documents and in postal addressing. Although computer
recognition of handwriting seems to be a solved problem with the ubiquity of
PDAs and tablet PCs -- where writing is on specialized surfaces (called dynamic
handwriting) -- recognition of handwriting on paper documents (or static
handwriting) poses numerous challenges.
The talk will describe recent advances with applicability to postal address
recognition, signature/writer verification and automatic scoring of responses
to prompts in school testing. A system for handwriting comparison for forensics
and for searching handwritten document repositories will be demonstrated.
Sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Science.
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