Segmentation of single- or multiple-touching handwritten numeral string using background and foreground analysis

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1304-1317

  Chen, Yi Kai ^a   Wang, Jhing Fa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mixture gaussian probability; Multiple touching; Segmentation; Thinning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001620119     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.888715     Document Type: Article

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