Given the similarity of handwritten formula symbols and various handwriting styles, this paper proposes a squeeze-extracted multi-feature convolution neural network (SE-MCNN) to improve the recognition rate of handwritten formula symbols. The system proposed in this paper integrates the eightdirectional feature of the original sequence in the convolutional layer, which significantly compensates for the lost dynamic trajectory information in the handwritten formula symbol. Meanwhile, the joint loss is constructed to improve the discriminability of features in the way of supervised learning, which enlarges the inter-class difference and decreases inner-class similarity. The standard mathematical formula symbol library provided by the Competition Organization on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expression (CROHME) is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Experiments show that the proposed SE-MCNN approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods even at the condition of without using the data augmentation. INDEX TERMS Artificial neural network, multi-feature, joint training, discriminative feature.
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