Improving off-line handwritten chinese character recognition with semantic information

  • Hongjian Zhan
  • , Shujing Lyu
  • , Yue Lu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Off-line handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR) is a well-developed area in computer vision. However, existing methods only discuss the image-level information. Chinese character is a kind of ideograph, which means it is not only a symbol indicating the pronunciation but also has semantic information in its structure. Many Chinese characters are similar in writing but different in semantics. In this paper, we add semantic information into a two-level recognition system. First we use a residual network to extract image features and make a premier prediction, then transform the image features into a semantic space to conduct a second prediction if the confidence of the previous prediction is lower than a threshold. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to introduce semantic information into Chinese handwritten character recognition task. The results on ICDAR-2013 off-line HCCR competition dataset show that it is meaningful to add semantic information to HCCR.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Proceedings
EditorsAndrew Chi Sing Leung, Long Cheng, Seiichi Ozawa
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages528-536
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030042202
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018 - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Duration: 13 Dec 201816 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11305 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018
Country/TerritoryCambodia
CitySiem Reap
Period13/12/1816/12/18

Keywords

  • Character embedding
  • Handwritten Chinese character recognition
  • Semantic information

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