RATA.Gesture: A gesture recognizer developed using data mining
Samuel Hsiao-Heng Chang, Rachel Blagojevic, Beryl Plimmer · Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing · 2012
Abstract Although many approaches to digital ink recognition have been proposed, most lack the flexibility and adaptability to provide acceptable recognition rates across a variety of problem spaces. This project uses a systematic approach of data mining analysis to build a gesture recognizer for sketched diagrams. A wide range of algorithms was tested, and those with the best performance were chosen for further tuning and analysis. Our resulting recognizer, RATA.Gesture, is an ensemble of four algorithms. We evaluated it against four popular gesture recognizers with three data sets; one of our own and two from other projects. Except for recognizer–data set pairs (e.g., PaleoSketch recognizer and PaleoSketch data set) the results show that it outperforms the other recognizers. This demonstrates the potential of this approach to produce flexible and accurate recognizers.