On-line Chinese character recognition with effective candidate radical and candidate character selections

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1647-1659

  Lay, Shyh Rong ^a,c   Lee, Chao Hao ^b   Cheng, Nai Jen ^b   Tseng, Chien Cheng ^a,d   Jeng, Bor Shenn ^a   Ting, Pei Yih ^a   Wu, Quen Zong ^a,d   Day, Miin Luen ^a,d  

^a Ministry of Transportation and Communications Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

^d Telcommunication Laboratories   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Candidate character selection; Candidate radical selection; Matching algorithm; On line Chinese character recognition; Radical extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER SETS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OFFICE AUTOMATION; USER INTERFACES;

CANDIDATE RADICAL SELECTION; FALSE EXTRACTED RADICALS; ON LINE CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RADICAL EXTRACTION; RECOGNITION RATE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030270490     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(96)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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