Handwritten Chinese character recognition: Effects of shape normalization and feature extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4768 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 104-128

  Liu, Cheng Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION (HCCR); NONLINEAR NORMALIZATION (NLN); NORMALIZATION METHODS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 41549136007     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78199-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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