Stroke extraction for Chinese characters using a trend-followed transcribing technique

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1789-1805

  Lin, Ji Rong ^a   Chen, Chang Fuu ^a  

^a TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese character stroke extraction; Thinning process; Travel algorithm; Trend followed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

CHINESE CHARACTER STROKE EXTRACTION; THINNING PROCESS; TRANSCRIBING TECHNIQUE; TRAVEL ALGORITHM;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030287448     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(96)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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