A coarse classification scheme on printed Chinese characters by encoding the feature points

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 555-570

  Wen, Ming Gang ^a,b   Han, Chin Chuan ^c   Fan, Kuo Chin ^b   Tang, Da Way ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coarse classification; Codeword encoding; Feature point extraction; Optical character recognition; Threshold based selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SCANNING;

CHINESE CHARACTERS; COARSE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CODEWORD ENCODING; K-MEAN CLUSTERING ALGORITHM;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042813689     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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