Summary: AAAI Spring Symposium on Smart Graphics, Stanford, California, March 2000, pages 140--147.
A Synthesis of Recognition and Morphing
James Arvo
California Institute of Technology
arvo@cs.caltech.edu
Kevin Novins
University of Otago
novins@cs.otago.ac.nz
Abstract
We present a new approach to managing the appear­
ance of handwritten symbolic information for pen­
based systems in which text is recognized and gradu­
ally transformed into clean typography. The approach
is best suited to pen­based symbolic input and ma­
nipulation in which the user interacts directly with
the display. Once a collection of user­drawn strokes
has been recognized as comprising a specific symbol,
the strokes begin a gradual metamorphosis into the
corresponding raster image from an appropriate font.
The transformation retains legibility at all intermedi­

Source: Arvo, Jim - Departments of Information and Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine

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