arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Write on Paper and Get the Online Digital Trace:\newline A New Era for Handwriting

The paper introduces a new method for capturing the digital trace of handwriting written on regular paper. It combines a sensor-equipped digital pen with advanced AI algorithms to reconstruct the pen’s trajectory in real time, eliminating the need for specialized styluses or substrates. The approach integrates hardware development and embedded AI software to enable seamless digitization of traditional handwriting.

By Florent Imbert, Yann Soullard, Eric Anquetil, Tanja Harbaum, Alexey Serdyuk, Fabian Kress, Tim Hamann, Peter Kampf
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