Papers from an August 2002 workshop reflect participation in this year's event by those working in allied fields such as writer identification and the mechanics of handwriting. Papers are presented in sections on classifier design, online recognition, word recognition, learning methods, multiple classifiers, pen computing and document applications, signature verification and writer identification, and offline recognition. Specific topics include recognition of handwritten month words on bank checks, voting methods for pattern recognition, automatic detection of handwriting forgery, and script and nature differentiation for Arabic and Latin text images. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |