Skeletonization of Arabic characters using clustering based skeletonization algorithm (CBSA)

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 453-464

  Mahmoud, Sabri A ^a   AbuHaiba, Ibrahim ^a   Green, Roger J ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic characters; Character recognition; Fuzzy clustering; ISODATA; Skeletons; Thinning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS;

ARABIC CHARACTERS; CLUSTERING; SKELETONIZATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0025842574     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(91)90058-D     Document Type: Article

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