On-line handwriting character recognition using direction-change features that consider imaginary strokes

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1115-1128

  Okamoto, Masayoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Extraction of features; Off line; On line; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN MATCHING; PROBABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

DIRECTION CHANGE FEATURES; OFF LINE; ONLINE HANDWRITING CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033164543     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00153-8     Document Type: Article

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