A background-thinning-based approach for separating and recognizing connected handwritten digit strings

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 921-933

  Zhongkang, Lu ^a   Zheru, Chi ^a   Wan Chi, Siu ^a   Pengfei, Shi ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Character segmentation; Connected digit strings; Fuzzy rules; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; FUZZY RULES; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT STRINGS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032688872     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3203(98)00123-x     Document Type: Article

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