Mixture-of-experts for handwriting trajectory reconstruction from IMU sensors
Mélange d'experts pour la reconstruction de la trajectoire de l'écriture manuscrite à partir de capteurs IMU
Résumé
The use of digital pens for online handwriting trajectory reconstruction is a
prevalent method for human-computer interaction. In this study, we focus on a digital pen
equipped with sensors where we aim at reconstructing the online handwriting trajectory.
This pen enables writing on any surface and preserving the digital trace of handwriting.
This type of pen could be used as an aid to learning to write in classroom. In this paper,
we propose a new approach learning to finely reconstruct the touching trajectories while
precisely analyzing the hovering part in order to position the next touching trace correctly.
This relies on a Mixture-Of-Experts (MOE) approach. The first expert is dedicated for
the pencil touch, and is named touching expert model.The second one is dedicated for the
hovering pen trajectory, and is named hovering expert model. We improve on the learning
of each of these experts based on additional context or specific examples. In addition we
introduce a novel public benchmark dataset, to enable future research and comparisons in
the field of handwriting reconstruction. The results demonstrates a significant enhancement
compared to its primary competitors