A metasynthetic approach for segmenting handwritten Chinese character strings

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1498-1511

  Liang, Zhizhen ^a   Shi, Pengfei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Dynamic programming; Mixture density function; Off line handwritten; Thinning; Touching characters; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CHINESE CHARACTERS; MIXTURE DENSITY FUNCTION; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; THINNING; TOUCHING CHARACTERS; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 19744378664     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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