Handwriting recognition

Finally, the paper, I wrote about in my last post was submitted today. The date was postponed twice. That’s why I did not have much time the last month.

It was a lot of hard work. Especially the evaluation of the webservice, I implemented. I performed a lot of tests and repeated them very often, because of some bugs in mine and in other’s source code.

Now, since this chapter is closed, I can fully concentrate on my diploma thesis. I startet writing nearly two weeks ago. The output is  rather small :( and I’m still not in a “flow”, but hopefully it will be better in some days.

The webservice is almost complete, just some little things that need to be changed after the evaluation. The only thing that is left for implementing is the ebook reader iLiad. I already startet to code some stuff, but the hardest work, the GUI, is still to come.

It has been a very long time since I wrote the last post. But there’s a good excuse :) Till Monday, 15th of February, I have to submit a paper to the ICFHR (http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/) and there is still so much work to do. Only today I was able to produce some experimental results, that will appear in the paper. It was hard work, but finally my tests are running :)

Today I prepared data for the evaluation of my webservice. I took some texts from http://www.bbc.co.uk/music and extracted rdf data of this service as well as from dbpedia (http://dbpedia.org/).

In the next two weeks I want to let 15 persons write five texts each and addidionally some notes. To evaluate the results will be very interesting to me. I’m really excited, how the results will look like and how I can (hopefully) improve them by changing the algorithm inside my webservice.

When I had a call to my supervisor the last time, we talked about  a publication again. He told me that there is a conference for handwriting recognition (see http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/index.html). If I had first results of my evaluation I could write a paper and submit it there. That would be really great.  Especially because this is a specialized conference. Deadline for submitting is February, 15th. So I have to hurry up, to get this done. Of course that means a lot more work to be done, but it could help me in future.