Recognition of handprinted Chinese characters by constrained graph matching

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-201

  Suganthan, P N ^a   Yan, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attributed relational graph matching; Constrained homomorphism; Handprinted chinese character recognition; Self organising Hopfield neural network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

ATTRIBUTED RELATIONAL GRAPH MATCHING; CONSTRAINED HOMOMORPHISM; HANDPRINTED CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SELF ORGANISING HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORK;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032022717     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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