Dual-binarization and anisotropic diffusion of Chinese characters in calligraphy documents

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 271-275

  Wang, Shen Zheng ^a   Lee, Hsi Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Binarization; Calligraphy; Dual binarization; Smooth

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BINARIZATIONS; BINARIZED IMAGES; CALLIGRAPHY; CHARACTER BOUNDARIES; CHINESE CHARACTERS; SMOOTH; STROKE WIDTHS;

BINS;

EID: 33746548580     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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