Online handwritten Chinese text recognition (OHCTR) poses challenges due to its large character set, ambiguous segmentation, and variable input lengths, necessitating advanced techniques.
The paper introduces a method that uses path signature to create signature feature maps from pen-tip trajectories, enabling effective capture of pen stroke characteristics.
The proposed multi-spatial-context fully convolutional recurrent network (MC-FCRN) improves predictions by leveraging various spatial context information while an implicit language model incorporates semantic understanding, leading to impressive accuracy rates of 97.50% and 96.58% on standard datasets.