A thinning algorithm for digital figures of characters

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 83-87

  Shimizu, M ^a   Fukuda, H ^b   Nakamura, G ^c  

^a Nagano Prefectural College   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Computer graphics; Concrete; Educational institutions; Equations; Image processing; Image segmentation; Lattices; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONCRETES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

BINARY PATTERNS; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; EQUATIONS; HILDITCH ALGORITHMS; PRE-PROCESSING; SKELETON; THINNING ALGORITHM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 38349093795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAI.2000.839576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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