Separation of single-touching handwritten numeral strings based on structural features

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1835-1847

  Yu, Donggang ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Character recognition; Separation of numeral strings; Single touching handwritten numeral strings; Structural features

Indexed keywords

SINGLE-TOUCHING HANDWRITTEN NUMERICAL STRINGS; STRUCTURAL FEATURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032314126     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00059-4     Document Type: Article

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