Final Program

08:00

Registration

09:00

Opening Ceremony

09:30

Plenary Speech
     Chair: S.-W. Lee (Korea)
Handwriting Recognition or Handwriting Reading ? : Situation at the Dawn of the 3rd Millenium
G. Lorrette (France)

10:30

Coffee Break

10:50

Session: On-line Handwriting Recognition(I)
Chair: L. Schomaker (The Netherlands)

On-line Handwriting Recognition by Discrete HMM with Fast Learning
    H. Yasuda, K. Takahashi and T. Matsumoto (Japan)

Invariant Recognition of Hand-Drawn Pictograms Using HMMs with
a Rotating Feature Extraction
    S. Muller, G. Rigoll, A. Kosmala and D. Mazurenok (Germany)

Relevant Classifier Integration Approach and Its Application to On-line Signature Verification
    X. Xiao, G. Leedham (Singapore) and R. Dai (China)

12:05

Lunch

13:30

Session: Handwritten Form Processing
      Chair: G. Kim (Korea)

Legal Amount Recognition on French Bank Checks Using a Neural Network-Hidden Markov Model Hybrid
E. Augustin, O. Baret, D. Price and S. Knerr (France)

Towards an Universal Approach to Background Removal in Images of Bankchecks
    K. Franke and M. Koeppen (Germany)

A Handwritten Form Reader Architecture
    C. Cracknell and A. C. Downton (U.K.)

Error Localization and Correction in Check Processing
    G. Kaufmann and H. Bunke (Switzerland)

Combining Different Classifiers and Level of Knowledge : A First
Step Towards an Adaptive Recognition System
    D. Ollivier, M. Weinfeld and R. Guegan (France)
 

15:35

Coffee Break

16:00

Session: Handwritten Word Recognition
    Chair: A. C. Downton (UK)

Handwritten Word Recognition - The Approach Proved by Practice
    G. Dzuba, A. Filatov, D. Gershuny and I. Kil (Russia)

Architecture for Handwritten Text Recognition Systems
    G. Kim (Korea), V. Govindaraju and S. N. Srihari (USA)

Search Algorithms for the Recognition of Cursive Phrases without Word Segmentation
    C. Scagliola (Italy)

Handwritten Word Recognition with Contextual Hidden Markov Models
    C. Farouz, M. Gilloux and J.-M. Bertille (France)

HMM Based Writer Independent On-line Handwritten Character and Word Recognition
    J. Hu, S. Lim and M. K. Brown (USA)

A Method for the Determination of Features Used in Human Reading of Cursive Handwriting
    L. Schomaker and E. Segers (Netherlands)

18:30
        Welcoming Reception

19:30
 

08:30

Session: Segmentation
Chair: S.N Srihari(USA)

Global Methods for Stroke Segmentation
    S. Mori,Y. Nakajima, S. Takegami and S. Sato (Japan)

Robust Deformable Matching for Character Extraction
    K.-W. Cheung, D.-Y. Yeung and R.T. Chin (Hong Kong)

Segmenting Handwritten Character Strings in an ICR System
    S. Bussi and E. Bruzzone (Italy)

An Advanced Segmentation Technique for Cursive Word Recognition
    G. Dimauro, S. Impedovo, G. Pirlo and A. Salzo (Italy)
 

10:10

Coffee Break

10:30

Session: On-line Handwriting Recognition (II)
Chair: M. Gilloux(France)

Optimization of Training Texts for Writer-Dependent Handwriting
Recognition
    J. F. Pitrelli, J. Subrahmonia, M. P. Perrone and K. S. Nathan (USA)

Recognition of On-line Handwritten Formulas
    A. Kosmala and G. Rigoll (Germany)

A Simple Yet Robust Structural Approach for Recognizing On-line
Handwritten Alphanumeric Characters
    K.-F. Chan and D.-Y. Yeung (Hong Kong)

Diacritical Processing Using Efficient Accounting Procedures
    G. Seni and J. Seybold (USA)

Coherent Knowledge Source Integration through Perceptual Cycle
Framework for Handwriting Recognition
    L. Pasquer, E. Anquetil and G. Lorette (France)
 

12:35

Lunch

14:00

Excursion

18:30

Banquet

21:00

 

08:30

Session: Oriental Script Processing
Chair: Y.Y. Tang(Hong Kong)

A Probabilistic Model for Candidate Selection in Recognition of
Large Character Set
    C.-L. Liu and M. Nakagawa (Japan)

Off-line Handwritten Hangul Recognition Based on Multiple Features
and Modular Partially Connected Multi-layer Perceptron
    Y.-M. Baek, K.-T. Lim, S.-I. Chien and J.-S. Park (Korea)

Document Understanding Based on Maximum a Posteriori Probability
Estimation
    T. Akagi and H. Mizutani (Japan)
 

09:45

Coffee Break

10:10

Session: Numeral Recognition
      Chair: G. Lorette (France)

Holistic Recognition of Touching Digits
    X. Wang, V. Govindaraju and S. Srihari (USA)

Quantum Neural Network in Recognition of Handwritten Numerals
    J. Zhou (Canada), Q. Gan (UK), A. Krzyzak and C. Y. Suen (Canada)

Expanding the Performance of Polynomial Classifiers by Iterative
Learning
    J. Franke (Germany)

Distinctiveness and Similarities of Handwritten Numerals
    Z. C. Li (Taiwan) and C. Y. Suen (Canada)
 

11:50

Lunch

13:00

Poster Session
    Chair: J.-Y. Ha (Korea)

P-1 Towards General Cursive Script Recognition
      U.-V. Marti and H. Bunke (Switzerland)
 
P-2 Utilizing Baum-Welch for On-line Signature Verification
      R. Martens and L. Claesen (Belgium)
 
P-3 Recognition of Handwritten Numerals Using Multiple Features and
Multiple Classifiers
      Y. G. Song, S. Y. Lee and J. J. Park (Korea)
 
P-4 Stroke Extraction from Handwritten Kanji Characters by Connecting
Segments
      Y. Okuda and K. Abe (Japan)
 
P-5 Performance Comparison of Statistical and Neural Network
Classifiers in Handwritten Digits Recognition
      S. W. Jeong, S. H. Kim and W. H. Cho (Korea)
 
P-6 An Investigation of Context-Dependent and Hybrid Modeling
Techniques for Very Large Vocabulary On-Line Cursive Handwriting
Recognition
      G. Rigoll, A. Kosmala and D. Willett (Germany)
 
P-7 Handwritten Korean Address Recognition by Combining Minimum
Distance Classification and Dictionary Look-up
      S. H. Kim (Korea)
 
P-8 A New Function-based On-line Signature Verification Method
      K. K. Lau, P. C. Yuen and Y. Y. Tang (Hong Kong)
 
P-9  An Automatic Evaluation of Handwriting Qualities for Handwritten
Hangul Database KU-1
      D.-I. Kim and S.-W. Lee (Korea)
 
 P-10 A Method for Fast Searching on Large Lexicons for Post-processing
on Handwriting Recognition
      M. A. Torres, S. Kuroyanagi and A. Iwata (Japan)
 
 P-11 Experiments with a Self-supervised Adaptive Classification Strategy
in On-line Recognition of Isolated Handwritten Latin Characters
      J. Laaksonen, J. Hurri, E. Oja and J. Kangas (Finland)
 
 P-12 A Colour Classification Approach to Form Dropout
      C. Cracknell and A. C. Downton (UK)
 
 P-13 Writer Adaptive Segmentation of Handwritten Japanese Characters
      S. Senda, M. Hamanaka and K. Yamada (Japan)
 
P-14 A HMM-based System for Recognition of Handwritten Address
Words
      M. Schuessler and H. Niemann (Germany)
 
 P-15 Recognition of a Handwritten Korean Character by Combining
Segments Using Constraint Satisfying Graph
      Y.-S. Hwang and S.-Y. Bang (Korea)
 
 P-16 Recovery of Temporal Information from Static Images of Hangul
Handwriting Based on Its Structural Information
      H. Kwak and K. Chung (Korea)
 
 P-17 Signature Verification Using Distribution of Angular Direction of Pen-
point Movement
      T. Matsuura and S. Yamamoto (Japan)
 
P-18 Model-based Stroke Extraction and Matching by Heuristic Search
for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
      C.-L. Liu (Japan), I.-J. Kim and J. H. Kim (Korea)
 
P-19 Region-based Shape Decomposition Algorithm for Hangul Character
Patterns
      I.-S. Oh, J.-S. Lee, T.-W. Yoo, J.-S. Park and K.-C. Hong (Korea)
 
 P-20 A New Numeral String Recognition Method Using Character
Touching Type Verification
     D. Nishiwaki and K. Yamada (Japan)
 
P-21 Handwritten Korean Character Recognition Based on
Hierarchical Random Graph Modeling
      H. Y. Kim and J. H. Kim (Korea)
 
P-22 Handwriting-based User Interfaces Employing On-line Handwriting
Recognition
      M. Nakagawa, K. Akiyama, T. Oguni and N. Kato (Japan)
 
P-23 A New Templates Presentation and Extraction Method for
Handwritten Digit Recognition
      Z. Lu, Z. Chi, W.-C. Siu (Hong Kong) and P.-F. Shi (China)
 
P-24 Definition and Implementation of Image Enhancement Techniques for
Good Binarization
      K. Cheoi, H. Byun and Y. Lee (Korea)
 
P-25 Integration of Dictionaries in the Character Recognition by Relaxation
Matching
      K. Iwata, M. Okamoto, K. Kato and K. Yamamoto (Japan)
 
P-26 Two-Dimensional Overlap-Save Method in Handwriting Recognition
       Y. Y. Tang (Hong Kong), Q. Sun, L. Yang (China) and L. Feng
       (Hong Kong)

P-27 A Natural Learning Algorithm based on Hough Transform for
Text Lines Extraction in Handwritten Documents
      Y. Pu and Z. Shi (USA)
 
 P-28 Vowel Spotting for On-line Recognition of Cursive Hangul
      K. H. Kim and J. I. Doh (Korea)
 
 P-29 Extracting the Signature from the Travelers’ Checks
      K. Yoshikawa, Y. Adachi and M. Yoshimura (Japan)
 

14:30

Session: Emerging Techniques
      Chair: H. Fujisawa (Japan)

Multiple-agent Architectures for the Classification of Handwritten
Text
    L. Vuurpijl and L. Schomaker (The Netherlands)

Off-line Handwriting Modeling as a Trajectory Tracking Problem
    P. M. Lallican and C. Viard-Gaudin (France)

Contour Detection of Handwriting by Modular-Angle-Separated
Wavelets
    Y. Y. Tang, L. Yang, L. Feng (Hong Kong) and Z. Yang (China)

Tree Search Technique for the Optimization of the k Nearest
Neighbors Algorithm
    D. Mangalagiu and M. Weinfeld (France)
 

16:10

Coffee Break

16:30

Panel Session
Moderator: C.Y.Suen(Canada)

 Topic: Handwriting Recognition Researches for 21th Century
     M. Gilloux (France), S. Mori (Japan) and L. Schomaker
    (The Netherlands)
 

17:30