Recognition of broken and noisy handwritten characters using statistical methods based on a broken-character-mending algorithm

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1465-1479

  Cheng, Dahai ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broken character mending algorithm; Contour following; Contour information; Handwritten character recognition; Statistical method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012502783     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601374     Document Type: Article

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