Integrated segmentation and recognition of connected handwritten characters with recurrent neural network

In this paper, we propose an integrated segmentation and recognition method for recognizing connected handwritten characters with recurrent neural network. It has been developed to both integrate segmentation and recognition within a single recurrent neural network and recognize connected handwritten characters using the spatial dependencies in the images of connected handwritten characters. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, experiments with the NIST database have been carried out and the performance of the proposed method has been compared with those of the previous integrated segmentation and recognition methods