Handwritten character recognition using Empirical Mode Decomposition applied writing movements

摘要

In this paper, handwritten character recognition by using characters' writing movements is investigated. To obtain the information about writing movements a 3-axis accelerometer is used. Just like most of other sensors, 3-axis accelerometers give the actual movement signal as well as noise. Before the recognition step, all of the signals need to be preprocessed and the noisy parts need to be removed. So, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and normalization preprocessing steps are applied to the signals. Finally, the signals in the dataset are compared with Dynamic Time Warping for classification and accurate classification rate of 91.92% is obtained.