Tamil Samoogathin Pulamaiyakka Marabil Pen Eyangiyalum Iruppum

A Study of Representations for Pen based Handwriting Recognition of Tamil Characters

In this paper we study the important issue of choosing representations that are suitable for recognizing pen based handwriting of characters in Tamil, a language of India. Four different choices, based on the following set of features are considered: (1) a sequence of directions and curvature; (2) a sequence of angles; (3) Fourier transform coefficients; and (4) wavelet features. We provide arg...

Tamil IT ! : Interactive Speech Translation in Tamil

The Tamil IT! (Interactive Translation) speech translation system is intended to allow unsophisticated users to communicate across the Tamil ↔ English language barrier, without strong domain restrictions, despite the error prone nature of current speech and translation technologies. Achieving this ambitious goal depends in large part on allowing the users to interactively correct recognition an...

Segmentation of Pen Strokes Using Pen Speed

We present a technique for segmenting pen strokes into lines and arcs. The technique uses pen speed information to help infer the segmentation intended by the drawer. To begin, a set of candidate segment points is identified. This set includes speed minima below a threshold computed from the average pen speed. It also includes curvature maxima at which the pen speed is again below a threshold. ...

The Pen

An insight into the freedom of using a pen: Pen-based system and pen-and-paper

In recent years the studies of freehand sketch began to peek into cognitive study area from the design media aspect. The development of pen-based system attempted to use pen as an input device, allowing sketches to be freely drawn in computers environment. The importance of the freehand sketch is in its ability to freely represent various drawing projections using ambiguous sketches. However, a...