Signatures and handwriting have long played a role in dayto-day business transactions and in forensics, e.g., to authenticate documents, as evidence to establish crime or innocence, etc. The individuality of handwriting and signatures is the basis for their relevance to authentication and forensics. This very individuality makes them also potentially useful as a biometric modality. This chapter...

The increasing availability of high performance, low priced, portable digital imaging devices has created a tremendous opportunity in document image acquisition by supplementing traditional scanning using flatbed scanners and mounted cameras. However, the portability of the camera presents new challenges in document image analysis and recognition in general and handwriting recognition in partic...

Handwriting difficulty is one of the main issues among school children, especially for those with motor coordination issues. The aim this systematic review to evaluate effectiveness occupational therapy interventions in handwriting components children Current research articles were systematically searched according PRISMA guidelines. Two hundred and sixty-eight (n=268) identified; however, only...

Handwriting has been conventionally used for input by applying handwriting recognition. In this paper we propose to use handwriting without recognition as a temporal medium of communication in synchronization with other media like audio and video. This ensures that the interfaces developed are language independent and provide rich, natural and intuitive interaction. We present multiple applicat...

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[Purpose] This study investigated the association between proprioception, including joint position sense and kinetic sense, and handwriting legibility in healthy children. [Subjects and Methods] Assessment of joint position sense, kinetic sense, and handwriting legibility was conducted for 19 healthy children. Joint position sense was assessed by asking the children to flex their right elbow be...

In learner corpora, as in any corpus, mark-up is an important issue. One aspect of learner corpora so far largely ignored, however, is the specific question of handwriting and in particular how to mark-up handwriting anomalies, especially with learners whose native language uses a different writing system. In this paper we pose some open questions about what aspects of a learner’s handwriting m...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale for Children's Handwriting. METHOD The Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration ...

We are interested in achieving the best possible recognition rates for hand-written mathematics. This problem has challenges that go beyond the usual natural language handwriting recognition: multiple alphabets are used, the number of single-stroke and few-stroke symbols numbers in the hundreds, writers form symbols from some of the alphabets in idiosyncratic non-standard manners, layout is two...

Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often experience difficulties in handwriting. The current study examined the relationships between three motor assessments and the spatial and temporal consistency of handwriting. Twelve children with probable DCD and 29 children from 7 to 12 years who were typically developing wrote the lowercase letters "e" and "l" in cursive and printed...