Shape Matching Using LAT and its Application to Handwritten Numeral Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 618-629

  Wakahara, Toru ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 D shape matching; deformation constraints; handwritten character; local affine transformation; multiscale refinement; recognition; weighted least squares criterion

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

BINARY IMAGE; DEFORMATION CONSTRAINTS; GAUSSIAN WINDOW FUNCTIONS; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LOCAL AFFINE TRANSFORMATION; MULTISCALE REFINEMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MATCHING; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES CRITERION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0028442671     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.295906     Document Type: Article

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