Iterative cross section sequence graph for handwritten character segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2150-2154

  Dawoud, Amer ^a  

^a Rotoflex International Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross section sequence graph (CSSG); Handwritten character segmentation; Optical character recognition (OCR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY IMAGES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXELS;

CROSS SECTION SEQUENCE GRAPH; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HANDWRITING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HANDWRITING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547742011     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.901245     Document Type: Article

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