Knowledge-based English cursive script segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 945-954

  Xiao, Xuhong ^a   Leedham, Graham ^b  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Background regions; Connected components; Cursive script segmentation; Feasible rules; Forbidden rules

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

CURSIVE SCRIPT SEGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034258905     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(00)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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