Structure extraction from decorated characters using multiscale images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 315-322

  Omachi, ShiN'ichiro ^a,b   Inoue, Masaki ^c   Aso, Hirotomo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Decorated character; OCR; Structure extraction

Indexed keywords

DECORATED CHARACTERS; MULTISCALE IMAGES; STRUCTURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035280022     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.910884     Document Type: Article

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