Gender and Handedness Prediction from Offline Handwriting Using Convolutional Neural Networks

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Pseudocode of successive random transformations applied on training images.

algorithm generate_modify_image :

 # affine inclination

  = randomInclination in 

  = affine_rotation

 # positive scaling

 vs = randomVerticalScaling in 

 hs = randomHorizontalScaling in 

  = increasing_scaling (, vs, hs)

 # binary morphological filter with a structuring element

  = randomMorphologyOperation in 

  = morphology_filter

 # produce 30 × 100 rescaled image using bilinear interpolation

  = normalize_size (, “bilinear”) # input training image for the CNN

  return