Handwritten character skeletonisation for forensic document analysis

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 754-758

  Pervouchine, Vladimir ^a   Leedham, Graham ^a   Melikhov, Konstantin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Author identification; Handwriting analysis; Skeletonisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; SKELETONISATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 33644518659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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