Statistical character structure modeling and its application to handwritten Chinese character recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1422-1436

  Kim, In Jung ^a   Kim, Jin Hyung ^b  

^a Inzisoft Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Heuristic search; Model driven stroke extraction; Selective matching; Statistical character structure modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN MATCHING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEURISTIC SEARCH; MODEL DRIVEN STROKE EXTRACTION; SELECTIVE MATCHING; STATISTICAL CHARACTER STRUCTURE MODELING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0442327712     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1240117     Document Type: Article

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