GESTURE STROKE RECOGNITION IN TOUCH-BASED USER INTERFACE INPUT

A method for recognizing gesture strokes in user input, comprising: receiving data generated based on the user input, the data representing a stroke and comprising a plurality of ink points in a rectangular coordinate space and a plurality of timestamps associated respectively with the plurality of ink points; segmenting the plurality of ink points into a plurality of segments each corresponding to a respective sub-stroke of the stroke and comprising a respective subset of the plurality of ink points; generating a plurality of feature vectors based respectively on the plurality of segments; and applying the plurality of feature vectors as an input sequence representing the stroke to a trained stroke classifier to generate a vector of probabilities including a probability that the stroke is a non-gesture stroke and a probability that the stroke is a given gesture stroke of a set of gesture strokes.