Predictive DP Matching for On-Line Character Recognition

For on-line character recognition, predictive DP matching is proposed where two physically different features, coordinate features and directional features, are handled in a unified manner. For this unification, the distance of the directional features is converted into a distance of the coordinate features by a feature prediction technique. An experimental result showed that the predictive DP matching could attain a recognition rate comparable to the rate by the conventional DP matching which requires the costly optimization of the weight to balance the two features. 1