Video-based handwritten Chinese character recognition

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-174

  Tang, Xiaoou ^a   Lin, Feng ^a   Liu, Jianzhuang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Handwritten Chinese characters; Online stroke tracing; Video based OCR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER VISION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

ATTRIBUTED RELATIONAL GRAPH (ARG); HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTERS; ONLINE STROKE TRACING; VIDEO-BASED OCR;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 12344281671     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.839975     Document Type: Article

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