Handwritten Chinese character recognition using nonlinear active shape models and the Viterbi algorithm

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1853-1862

  Shi, Daming ^a   Gunn, Steve R ^a   Damper, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Handwritten Chinese character recognition; Kernel principal component analysis; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036885214     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00158-7     Document Type: Article

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