A genetic algorithm approach to chinese handwriting normalization

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 999-1007

  Lin, Der Sheng ^a   Leou, Jin Jang ^b  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese handwriting normalization; Fitness function; Generalized normalization transform; Genetic algorithm

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CENTROID OFFSET (CO); CHARACTER AREA COVERAGE (CAC); CHINESE HANDWRITING NORMALIZATION; STROKE DENSITY VARIATION (SDV);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031340296     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.650059     Document Type: Article

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