CONTENTS
Introduction = 1
Part 1 Introduction and overview of field
Frontiers in handwriting recognition / S. Impedovo = 7
Part 2 Handwritten character recognition
Historical review of theory and practice of handwritten character recognition / S. Mori = 43
Automatic recognition of handwritten characters / C. Y. Suen = 70
Learning, representation, understanding and recognition of characters and words - an intelligent approach / P. S. P. Wang = 81
Digital transforms in handwriting recognition / G. Dimauro = 113
Pattern recognition with optimal margin classifiers / B. E. Boser = 147
Part 3 Handwritten word recognition
On the robustness of recognition of degraded line images / J. C. Simon = 175
Invariant handwriting features useful in cursive script recognition / H. -L. Teulings = 179
Off-line recognition of bad quality hand written words using prototypes / N. D. Gorsky = 199
Handwriting recognition by statistical methods / T. Caesar ; J. Gloger ; A. Kaltenmeier ; E. Mandler = 218
Towards a visual recognition of cursive script / M. Cheriet = 223
A hierarchical handwritten word segmentation / G. F. Houle = 228
Part 4 Contextual methods in handwriting recognition
Cursive words recognition : methods and strategies / E. Lecolinet, O. Baret = 235
Hidden Markov models in handwriting recognition / M. Gilloux = 264
language-level syntactic and semantic constraints applied to visual word recognition / J. J. Hull = 289
Verification of handwritten British postcodes using address features / Hendrawan, A. C. Downton = 313
Improvement of OCR by language model / I. G. Koh ; J. D. Kim ; J. W. Lee ; M. R. Han ; M. G. Koh ; H. B. Jeon ; H. J. Min ; S. Y. Kim = 318
An approximate string matching method for handwriting recognition post-processing using a dictionary / D. T. Dimov = 323
Part 5 Neural networks in handwriting recognition
Neural-net Computing for machine recognition of handwritten English language text / Y. H. Pao ; G. H. Park = 335
Cooperation of feedforward neural networks for handwritten digit recognition / D. Price ; S. Knerr = 352
Normalisation and preprocessing for a recurrent network off-line handwriting recognition system / A. W. Senior = 360
Part 6 Architectures for handwriting
Architectures for handwriting recognition / A. C. Downton = 369
Part 7 Databases of handwriting recognition
Large database organization for document images / J. J. Hull ; R. K. Fenrich = 397
Part 8 Signature recognition and verification
A model-based dynamic signature verification system / R. Plamondon = 417
Algorithms for signature verification / G. Pirlo = 435
Handwritten signature verification : a global approach / F. Nouboud = 455
Part 9 Application of handwriting recognition
Total approach for practical character recognition system development / K. Sakai ; Y. Kurosawa ; T. Mishima = 463
A pen-based music editor / A. Lercy = 489
Subject Index = 495