Recognizing on-line handwritten alphanumeric characters through flexible structural matching

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1099-1114

  Chan, Kam Fai ^a   Yeung, Dit Yan ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Flexible structural matching; On line handwritten character recognition; Structural primitives; Structure extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN MATCHING; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURAL MATCHING; ONLINE HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; STRUCTURAL PRIMITIVES; STRUCTURE EXTRACTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033165018     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00155-1     Document Type: Article

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