Recognition of merged characters based on forepart prediction, necessity-sufficiency matching, and character-adaptive masking

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 2-11

  Song, Jiqiang ^a   Li, Zuo ^b   Lyu, Michael R ^a   Cai, Shijie ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Character feature extraction; Character segmentation; Character adaptive masking; Forepart prediction; Merged character recognition; Necessity sufficiency matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHARACTER ADAPTIVE MASKING; CHARACTER FEATURE EXTRACTION; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; FOREPART PREDICTION; MERGED CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NECESSITY SUFFICIENCY MATCHING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PRINTING; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRINTING; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 13644266498     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2004.837588     Document Type: Article

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