The UNIPEN Project
On-line handwriting recognition addresses the problem of recognizing
handwriting from data collected with a sensitive pad which provides
discretized pen trajectory information. Contrarily to other pattern
recognition fields, such as speech recognition and optical character
recognition, no significant progresses have been made, in the past few years,
in on-line handwriting recognition to make large corpora of training and
test data publicly available, and no open competitions have been organized.
There is more to know about the history of
Unipen. As of 1999, the international Unipen Foundation was installed
to safeguard the distribution of a large database of on-line handwritten
samples, collected by a consortium of 40 companies and institutes.
| Board
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| president | Lambert Schomaker
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| vice president | Isabelle Guyon
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| treasurer | Louis Vuurpijl
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| Advisory Board
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| prof. Rejean Plamondon
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| prof. Guy Lorette
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Amount of data of the original Unipen collection
The totals (counted October 1995)
are: Over 40 institutions, donating
over 5 million characters, from more than 2200 writers. The data can
be obtained on CDROM.
The activities of UNIPEN will expand in the future according to the needs and
desires of the participants.
Other UNIPEN-related pages:
UNIPEN data examples and software (FTP)
- The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- UNIPEN SCRAWLS
schomaker@computer.org