Cursive Script Recognition

Surveys

• R. Casey, E. Lecolinet,
  A Survey of Methods and Strategies in Character Segmentation ,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 18, No. 7, pages 690-706, July 1996.
  (this paper has been cited more than 900 times in Google Scholar)

• E. Lecolinet, O. Baret,
  Cursive Word Recognition: Methods and Strategies ,
  in Fundamentals in Handwriting Recognition, S. Impedovo Ed., pages 235-263, NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Vol. 124, Springer Verlag, 1994.

• C. Faure, E. Lecolinet,
  OCR: Handwriting (in Chapter 3: Written Language Recognition),
  in Joint EC-US Survey on the State of the Art in Human Language Technology.

Reading Models for Cursive Script Recognition

PhD Thesis

• Myriam Côté,
  Utilisation d'un modèle d'accès lexical et de concepts perceptifs pour la reconnaissance d'images de mots cursifs,
  Thèse de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Juin 1997.

Selected Papers

• M. Côté, E. Lecolinet, M. Cheriet, Y.C. Suen,
  Automatic Reading of Cursive Scripts Using a Reading Model and Perceptual Concepts, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR).

• M. Côté, M. Cheriet, E. Lecolinet, Y.C. Suen,
  Automatic Reading of Cursive Scripts Using Human Knowledge,
  Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Ulm, Germany, August 1997

• M. Côté, E. Lecolinet, M. Cheriet, Y.C. Suen,
  Using Reading Models for Cursive Script Recognition ,
  in Handwriting and Drawing Research: Basic and Applied Issues, M.L. Simner, C.G. Leedham and A.J.W.M. Thomassen Eds., pages 299-313, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1996.

Cursive Script Recognition by Backward Matching

Web Demo

• Reconnaissance de l'Ecriture Manuscrite par Rétro-Appariement (French)

Selected Papers

• E. Lecolinet,
  Cursive Script Recognition by Backward Matching ,
  in Advances in Handwriting and Drawing: A Multidisciplinary Approach, C. Faure, P. Keuss, G. Lorette, A. Vinter, Eds., pages 117-135, Europia, Paris, 1994.

• E. Lecolinet,
  A New Model for Context-Driven Word Recognition,
  Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR), pages 135-145, Las Vegas, April 1993.

Cursive Script Segmentation

Web Demo

• Segmentation et Reconnaissance de l'Ecriture Manuscrite (French)

Selected Papers

• B. Plessis, A. Sicsu. L. Heute, E. Lecolinet, O. Debon, J-V. Moreau,
  A Multi-Classifier Strategy for the Recognition of Handwritten Cursive Words,
  Proceedings of the second IEEE Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 642-645, Tsukuba City, Japon, Oct. 1993

• E. Lecolinet, J-P. Crettez,
  A Grapheme-Based Segmentation Technique for Cursive Script Recognition ,
  Proceedings of the first IEEE Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 740-748, Saint Malo, France, Sept. 1991.

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