Structural Indexing for Character Recognition

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 330-346

  Marcelli, Angelo ^a   Likhareva, Natasha ^b   Pavlidis, Theo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CITIGROUP   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS;

STRUCTURAL INDEXING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031164927     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0518     Document Type: Article

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