%0 Journal Article %T Writer Identification for Chinese Handwriting %A Wong Yee Leng %A Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin %J International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications %D 2010 %I International Center for Scientific Research and Studies %X Chinese handwriting identification has become a hot research inpattern recognition and image processing. In this paper, we presentoverview of relevant papers from the previous related studies until tothe recent publications regarding to the Chinese HandwritingIdentification. The strength, weaknesses, accurateness andcomparison of well known approaches are reviewed, summarizedand documented. This paper provides broad spectrum of patternrecognition technology in assisting writer identification tasks, whichare at the forefront of forensic and biometrics based on identificationapplication. %K Chinese Handwriting %K Discretization %K Feature Extraction %K Pattern Recognition %K Writer Identification. %U http://www.i-csrs.org/Volumes/ijasca/vol.2/vol.2.2.1.July.10.pdf