Directional pattern matching for character recognition revisited

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 794-798

  Fujisawa, Hiromichi ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN MATCHING;

DIRECTIONAL FEATURE; KANJI CHARACTERS; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33749407468     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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