A new approach to the verification of Chinese signatures with variant orientations and scales using relaxation and state-space search methods

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 665-674

  Lin, Chi Fang ^a   Chen, Chi Wen ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A* search; Affine transformations; Chinese signature verification; Fuzzy relaxation; Point pattern matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PATTERN MATCHING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; CHINESE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION; POINT PATTERN MATCHING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032090534     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00102-7     Document Type: Article

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