Robust feature extraction for character recognition based on binary images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6067, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Lijun ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Xing, Yuxiang ^b   Wang, Zhiming ^c   Gao, Hewei ^b  

^a Research Institute   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Co occurrence matrix; Distance transform; Feature extraction; OCR; Stroke density

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BINARY IMAGES; CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; CONTOUR; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; QUANTIZED STROKE INFORMATION; STROKE DENSITY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33645694881     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.650386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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