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Handwriting Recognition with Java Technology

I thought it was a little odd that only twenty something people sat with in a room that normally could seat over 100. I had thought many others would be interested in this topic. Apparently I was wrong.

I was excited to learn more about this topic, to discover what packages and clases are needed to write applications that work with writing devices, but this session fell flat on my expectations.

The speaker Yu-Hong Wang, from Maplesoft, spoke well and explained a few concepts in detail. He described the Hidden Markove Model and the Viterbi Algorithm, but Java technology barely came into the picture.

Perhaps there is not a lot to say on this topic. If that's the case, we didn't need a session on it. I don't feel like I learned anything, except to use a mouse listener for these types of application.

The session only lasted 30 minutes instead of the alloted 60 minutes, and the demo was simply the speaker drawing on a PC Mouse tablet.

In all, it was a disappointment.

Dana

Comments

• hi Dana,
  I am student, interesting in this project, currently I am developing OCR using java technology. I know it has a great usage when it will become mature. If u wanted to work on this project with me, u can mail me at
  sry_khan2003@gawab.com
  so that I will join the sun community for this project.

  Posted by: ry_khan2003 on December 31, 2006 at 11:23 AM

• the project souds interesting, but ....
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  digital picture frame

  Posted by: lengqing on June 05, 2008 at 12:11 AM

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