On-Line Hand Writing Recognition using BLSTM [incomplete]

Demo Video

Introduction

This project is a final project of the 'Deep Learning and Practice' course hosted in NCTU 2017 SUMMER.
The air_writing project is basically but not totally following the ideals of A Novel Approach to On-Line Handwriting Recognition Based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks to implement a BLSTM model using tensorflow.

Requirement:

tensorflow >= 1.2
numpy
scipy
python 3.5
xml

Setup

1. Go to http://www.fki.inf.unibe.ch/databases/iam-handwriting-database download the IAM On-Line Handwriting DataBase. And store the dataset folders 'ascii' and 'lineStrokes' under air_writing/data/

2. Generate dense tensor input data: data.npy and label.npy.

python air_writing/recognition/src preprocess.py

3. Generate the dense representation of label(text line): dense.npy

python air_writing/recognition/src read.py

Traning on IAM data

python air_writing/recognition/src air_writing/recognition/src train_blstm.py

hyper parameters:

--data_dir
--checkpoint_dir
-- log_dir
--restore_path
--batch_size
--total_epoches
...(details please refer to air_writing/recognition/src/train_blstm.py)

Testing on VR data

1. Project and normalize the 3D coordinated VR writing trajectory data and get filename.json

python air_writing/ui_labeling/preprocessing sphere_fitting.py

2. Generate input data from filename.json and get VRdataValidation.npy and VRlabelValidation.npy

python air_writing/recognition/src tagProcess.py

3. Test

python air_writing/recognition/src test_blstm.py

Reference

[LiBu05-03] Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: IAM-OnDB - an On-Line English Sentence Database Acquired from Handwritten Text on a Whiteboard. 8th Intl. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005, Volume 2, pp. 956 - 961

A Novel Approach to On-Line Handwriting Recognition Based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2017] [Chen Chieh Yu, Wen Ze Lai]

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