SCUT-COUCH2008: A Comprehensive Online Unconstrained Chinese Handwriting Dataset
Yunyang Li, Lianwen Jin, Xinhua Zhu, Teng Long · 2008
A comprehensive online unconstrained Chinese handwriting dataset, SCUT-COUCH2008, is built to facilitate the research of unconstrained online Chinese handwriting recognition. SCUT-COUCH2008 is a comprehensive dataset that consists of 8 subsets, namely SCUT-COUCH-Word, GB1, GB2, TradGB1, Pinyin, Letters, Digit and Symbol. Particularly, each complete set of SCUT-COUCH2008 contains samples of 8,888 frequently used Chinese words, 6,069 single Chinese characters, 2,010 Pinyin, and 184 other characters, totally 17,151 object units and 27,858 characters. The current version of SCUT-HLC2008 is collected with PDA’s, including 50 complete sets of samples and 1,392,900 characters in total, written independently by 50 different persons. SCUT-COUCH2008 dataset is the first public available large vocabulary online Chinese handwriting dataset that contains frequently used Chinese words and Pinyin. It provides basic dateset for new research topics such as online handwritten Chinese word and Pinyin recognition.