A novel method for discriminating between Oriental and European languages by fractal features

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 345-348

  Xi, Dihua ^a   Lee, Seong Whan ^a   Tang, Yuan Y ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

DOCUMENT IMAGES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; FRACTAL FEATURE; LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 3142746156     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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