Resources

Online HWR Resources

External resources for the HWR researcher or enthusiast ! If you have resources to add to this page, please contact us.

Handwriting Datasets

Dataset name	Language/Script	Units	Source
UNIPEN Collection train_r01_v07	English/Roman	Paragraphs, Words, Characters	Intl. Unipen Foundation
Unipen-ICROW-03 benchmark set	English/Roman	Words	Intl. Unipen Foundation
IRONOFF Dual Handwriting Database	French/Roman	Words, Characters	IRESTE, Univ of Nantes
Japanese Character Database	Japanese/Kanji	Characters	Nakagawa Labaratory, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology
HP Labs India Indic Handwriting Datasets	Multiple Indic Languages & Scripts	Words, Characters	Pen & HW Group, HP Labs India
ISI Bangla Character Database	Bangla/Bangla	Numerals, Simple Characters	CVPR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Competitions and Benchmarks

Organizations and Research Groups

Standards

UNIPEN 1.0 - The de facto standard for online handwriting datasets
Digital Ink Markup Language (InkML) - a proposed XML representation for digital ink from W3C
Unipen XML (UPX) - a proposed standard for annotated datasets of online handwriting from iUF and HP Labs

Conferences

International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR)
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
Most Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning conferences (e.g. ICPR)

Journals

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
Most journals dealing with Pattern Recognition (e.g. IEEE PAMI, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters), Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks.

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