Identification of fork points on the skeletons of handwritten chinese characters

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1095-1100

  Liu, Ke ^a,b   Huang, Yea S ^a,b   Suen, Ching Y ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Handwritten Chinese character; Segmentation; Skeleton; Stroke extraction; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FORK POINTS; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SKELETON IMAGES; STROKE EXTRACTION; THINNING ALGORITHMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033211273     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.799914     Document Type: Article

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