HP Labs India

Research - Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction project
Research - Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction project

Linguistic Resources for Handwriting Recognition

The objective of this thread of research is the development of annotated datasets of handwriting in the languages and scripts of the emerging markets, which are generally conspicuous by their absence. These are a prerequisite for all the following aspects of building handwriting recognition engines for a given script :

  • fostering research in handwriting recognition by overcoming an important barrier to research
  • analysis of writing styles to devise handwriting recognition strategies
  • training of robust handwriting recognition algorithms
  • objective evaluation of handwriting recognition algorithms
  • other applications including script and writer identification

IWFHR 2006 Online Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition Competition

HP Labs India is happy to support handwriting recognition research for Indic scripts, by providing the training and test datasets for the Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition Competition being organized in the context of the 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-10), La Baule, France, Oct 23-26, 2006.

For more details, visit the competition site.

Datasets Available for Download



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