arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Handwriting Trajectory Recovery via Autoregressive Ordered Stroke Instance Prediction

The paper presents a two‑stage method for recovering handwriting trajectories from static images. First, it predicts ordered stroke instances autoregressively, then reconstructs continuous motion within each stroke using direction‑related cues. Experiments on Chinese, English, and Tamil handwriting show that this ordered prediction outperforms post‑hoc ordering and baseline models, and that sampling density significantly impacts performance.

By En-Guang Wang, Yan-Ming Zhang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

Rethinking Handwritten Character Recognition

The paper introduces GraphemeNet, a unified multi‑script handwritten character recognition architecture that explicitly encodes script‑geometric regularities. It uses two orthogonal binary axes: Persistent Scaffold Injection (PSI) to embed stroke‑level geometry into each encoder stage, and a choice between gated global pooling or a Stroke Topology Module for spatial relational reasoning. Across fourteen benchmarks in eight writing systems, GraphemeNet achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance with fewer parameters, demonstrating the effectiveness of structural‑prior efficiency for multi‑script HCR.

By Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Ashim Shrestha
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Rotation-free Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using Linear Recurrent Units

The paper presents a rotation‑free online handwritten character recognition system that uses Sliding Window Path Signature (SW‑PS) to extract local structural features and a lightweight Linear Recurrent Unit (LRU) classifier. The LRU blends the incremental processing of RNNs with the parallel training efficiency of state‑space models to model dynamic stroke characteristics. Experiments on rotated CASIA‑OLHWDB1.1 subsets (digits, English upper letters, Chinese radicals) achieved accuracies of 99.62%, 96.67%, and 94.33% respectively, outperforming competing models in convergence speed and test accuracy.

By Zhe Ling, Sicheng Yu, Danyu Yang