SACHI Seminar: Modeling and Analyzing development of scripts by Vinodh Rajan

SACHI Seminar

Title:

Modeling and Analyzing development of scripts

Speaker: Vinodh Rajan, University of St. Andrews

Abstract:
Human handwriting is a process that often generates variable output. Scripts generally begin with characters possessing consistent shape. But the effects of variations tend to accumulate and modify the scripts’ appearance over time. The talk will start with a brief overview of scripts and related concepts. Then the example of the Brahmic family of scripts will be addressed, and in particular the variations that led to their development.This will be followed by a general introduction to handwriting modeling methods along with techniques such as trajectory reconstruction, stroke segmentation and stroke modeling. There will further be a discussion of methods and techniques to model and analyze development of scripts, with prospective applications, and lastly there will be a demo of what was achieved so far.

Bio:
Vinodh Rajan is a PhD student based within the School of Computing, here at the University of St. Andrews. Read more about Vinodh here.

Event details

  • When: 28th May 2013 13:00 - 14:00
  • Where: Cole 1.33a
  • Format: Seminar