On-line Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Symbols
Martin Thoma

TL;DR
This thesis develops an online handwritten mathematical symbol recognizer using trajectory data, achieving significant error rate improvements through extensive preprocessing, feature extraction, and neural network optimization on a large dataset.
Contribution
It introduces an optimized recognition system with novel preprocessing, feature extraction, and training variants, significantly reducing error rates compared to previous methods.
Findings
TOP1 error less than 17.5%
TOP3 error of 4.0%
18.5% improvement in TOP1 error
Abstract
Finding the name of an unknown symbol is often hard, but writing the symbol is easy. This bachelor's thesis presents multiple systems that use the pen trajectory to classify handwritten symbols. Five preprocessing steps, one data augmentation algorithm, five features and five variants for multilayer Perceptron training were evaluated using 166898 recordings which were collected with two crowdsourcing projects. The evaluation results of these 21 experiments were used to create an optimized recognizer which has a TOP1 error of less than 17.5% and a TOP3 error of 4.0%. This is an improvement of 18.5% for the TOP1 error and 29.7% for the TOP3 error.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHandwritten Text Recognition Techniques · Music and Audio Processing · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
