Automatic segmentation of unconstrained handwritten numeral strings

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 317-322

  Sadri, J ^a   Suen, C Y ^a   Bui, T D ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Background Features; Foreground Features; Numeral String Recognition; Numeral String Segmentation; Skeleton Tracing

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FEATURES; FOREGROUND FEATURES; NUMERAL STRING RECOGNITION; NUMERAL STRING SEGMENTATION; SKELETON TRACING;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERRORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SET THEORY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 18044392547     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2004.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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