Knowledge driven Offline to Online Script Conversion
This addresses a domain-specific challenge in handwriting analysis by enabling the use of robust online script algorithms on offline data, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing conversion methods.
The paper tackles the problem of converting offline script images to online script data, proposing a heuristic-based method to extract online information from offline bitmap images, and demonstrates its performance on a real signature sample with known online data.
The problem of offline to online script conversion is a challenging and an ill-posed problem. The interest in offline to online conversion exists because there are a plethora of robust algorithms in online script literature which can not be used on offline scripts. In this paper, we propose a method, based on heuristics, to extract online script information from offline bitmap image. We show the performance of the proposed method on a real sample signature offline image, whose online information is known.