[Submitted on 25 Jul 2026]
Title:A Heisenberg Lift Descriptor for Order Sensitive Online Handwriting Recognition
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Abstract:Online handwriting recognition systems typically represent pen trajectories through fixed-length Euclidean shape descriptors that capture the spatial outline of each stroke, but are insensitive to the order in which that outline is produced. Two strokes that trace the same region of the plane in opposite directions are indistinguishable to any such order-blind representation, yet their traversal directions may carry decisive class information in characters where loop orientation and stroke sequencing matter. This paper introduces a Heisenberg-lift framework that addresses this gap through a compact, interpretable, order-sensitive augmentation for online pen-trajectory features. The simplest instance is the terminal signed area, a single parameter-free scalar appended to an existing Euclidean descriptor at negligible computational cost. Evaluated on two standard online handwriting benchmarks, this one-scalar addition, consistently raises classifier accuracy over the Euclidean baseline. On the hardest character pair in our study, the letters o and y, the signed area alone achieves perfect separation while the Euclidean baseline falls short. The advantage grows further under additive coordinate noise, a practically relevant degradation in pen-trajectory data. A richer fifteen-dimensional extension, derived from a noncommutative Heisenberg-group subdivision scheme, provides additional gains in noisy and loop-structured conditions. Dimension-matched statistical controls confirm that all improvements reflect geometric information rather than feature-count inflation. The resulting descriptor is lightweight, closed-form, and directly interpretable, making it a practical augmentation for online handwriting and related document-trajectory classification pipelines in which the direction of stroke execution carries discriminative information.
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.17565 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.17565v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.17565
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From: Hassan Ugail [view email] [v1] Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:29:10 UTC (837 KB)
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