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The International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR) ascientific conference that brings together leading researchers and engineers fromall over the world from the fields of on-line and off-line handwriting recognition,has this year hosted a competition for the most accurate character recognitionsoftware.
The competition organized by Hewlett Packard Labs India and The University of Essex,UK received 18 entries from University and Industry research labs many of them fromwell known handwriting recognition companies and research groups.
Tamil was chosen as the competition subject as it is one of AsiaÂ's most spokenlanguages. It was also the first experience of Tamil recognition for most of theparticipants, including Vision Objects! Each participant had a limited amount oftime to train its recognizer on Tamil handwriting samples. The comparison was thenperformed on a different set of Tamil characters again provided by the organizers.
Vision Objects won the competition with a 93.53% recognition score. Handwritingrecognition experts considered it as an excellent result, given that the Tamilalphabet has many characters of very similar appearance, which makes it a toughrecognition problem. The recognizers from the other participants came in with asignificantly lower recognition score, highlighting the unique quality of VisionObjectsÂ' MyScript handwriting recognition products.
Vision Objects has developed a unique approach to standardize the development ofhigh quality recognition for languages and for all writing styles from singleletters to natural free text. Vision Objects currently supports more than 70different languages providing the largest range of languages recognized on themarket.
 It is an honor to receive this award from leading experts in the field ofhandwriting recognition, said Stefan Knerr, founder and CEO of Vision Objects.  Itrewards our past and ongoing investments for providing our partners with the mostaccurate handwriting recognition technology in the market, and underlines ourcommitment to supporting the largest possible spectrum of languages worldwide .
About Vision ObjectsVision Objects provides the industry standard in Handwriting Recognition Technologyand Text Input Methods for pen-based user interfaces. Vision ObjectsÂ'ground-breaking MyScript Technology reliably recognizes and converts handwritinginto smart, valuable and searchable digital information. MyScript is available in awide range of languages addressing markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.MyScript is integrated into many existing systems for high level form processing,personal information management, messaging and edutainment applications. VisionObjectsÂ' mission is to develop and market accurate and high performance HandwritingRecognition & Understanding software for any platform using handwritten data entrythrough pen-based user interfaces such as Digital Pens, PDAs, Tablet PCs andSmartphones.
About IWFHRThe IWFHR series of workshops brings together leading researchers and engineers fromthe fields of on-line and off-line handwriting recognition. This is an internationalforum for identifying, encouraging and exchanging new ideas on different topics ofhandwriting recognition as well as for promoting novel applications in an attempt toextend the frontiers of this fascinating field of research. The 10th InternationalWorkshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR) was held in La Baule,France on October 23-26, 2006.For more information, visit www.irisa.fr/manifestations/20 06/IWFHR/###
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