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In handwriting research, the concept of stroke is used in various ways. In engineering and computer science, there is a tendency to use the term stroke for a single connected component of ink (in off-line handwriting recognition) or a complete pen-down trace (in on-line handwriting recognition). Thus, such stroke may be a complete character or a part of a character. However, in this definition, a complete word written as connected cursive script should also be called a stroke. This is in conflict with the suggested unitary nature of stroke as a relatively simple shape.
In the research field of handwriting motor control, the term ballistic stroke is used.[1] It is defined as the trajectory segment between two consecutive minima in the absolute velocity of the pen tip. The time delay between the cortical brain command and a muscle contraction is so large that the 100 millisecond ballistic strokes need to be planned by the brain, as feedback by hand-eye coordination requires a much slower movement than is the case in the normal handwriting process.
References
[edit]- ↑ Teja, S. Prabhu; Namboodiri, Anoop M. (2013). "A Ballistic Stroke Representation of Online Handwriting for Recognition". 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. IEEE. pp. 857–861. doi:10.1109/icdar.2013.175. ISBN 978-0-7695-4999-6.