Linking broken character borders with variable sized masks to improve recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1429-1435

  Whichello, Adrian Philip ^b   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a General Network Corporation   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Border linking; Boundary tracing; Broken character strokes; Handwritten character recognition; Image thresholding; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BORDER LINKING; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS; IMAGE THRESHOLDING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030214174     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00171-9     Document Type: Article

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