Segmenting handwritten Chinese characters based on heuristic merging of stroke bounding boxes and dynamic programming

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 963-973

  Tseng, Lin Yu ^a   Chen, Rung Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Fuzzy matching; Handwritten Chinese character segmentation; Stroke bounding box

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; OFFLINE CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032131407     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00073-7     Document Type: Article

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