Uses AI to Mimic Workings of the Human Brain; Wins Mandarin
Handwriting Recognition Competition at largest international conference on
document image processing
Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu
Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of industry's most accurate
handwritten character recognition technology that employs artificial
intelligence (AI) to mimic the workings of the human brain.
Conventional handwritten character recognition attempts to
identify a character based on the number and angle of its strokes. Severely
misshapen characters, however, might not be recognized using this method, and
increasing recognition accuracy requires the character to be
"learned" in a time-consuming process. This new technology uses AI to
recognize character features, in the same way a human brain does, to learn more
quickly and in greater detail. This slashes character learning time to 1/17th
previous levels while achieving recognition accuracy of 94.8%.