A fuzzy substroke extractor for handwritten Chinese characters

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1963-1980

  Yeung, Daniel S ^a   Fong, H S ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Decision under ambiguity; Fuzzy set partitioning; Handwritten Chinese character; Law of good continuity; Substroke extraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PERFORMANCE;

DECISION UNDER AMBIGUITY; FUZZY SET PARTITIONING; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER; LAW OF GOOD CONTINUITY; SUBSTROKE EXTRACTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030387062     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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