Towards automatic recognition of fonts using genetic approach

Recent Advances in Computers, Computing and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 290-295

  Sarfraz, M ^a   Raza, S A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Contour; Font; Gray level image; Outline; Significant points; Spline

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTOUR; ELECTRONIC FONTS; GRAY-LEVEL IMAGES; SIGNIFICANT POINTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 4944236927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Akaike, H. (1974) A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 19(6), 716-723.
2. Avrahami, G., and Pratt, V., (1991), Sub-Pixel Edge Detection in Character Digitization, Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II, Eds., Morris, R. and Andre, J., Cambridge University Press, 54-64.
3. Chang, H., and Van, H., (1998), Vectorization of Hand-Drawn Image using Piecewise Cubic Bezier Curves Fitting, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Science, Vol. 31(11), 1747-1755.
4. rd Workshop of the Australian Pattern Recognition Group, 175-184.
5. Davis, L., (1979), Shape Matching using Relaxation Techniques, IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 1, 60-72.
6. Farin, G. E. 1994. Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design, Academic Press, New York.
7. Goldberg, D. E. (1989). Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning. Addison Wesley.
8. Harada, T., Yoshimoto, F., and Aoyama, Y. (2000) Data Fitting using a genetic algorithm with real number genes. Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging.
9. Hersch, R. D., (1994), Towards a Universal Auto-hinting System for Typographic Shapes, Electronic Publishing, Vol 7(4), 251-260.
10. Itoh, Koichi, (1993), A curve fitting algorithm for character fonts, Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6(3), 195-205.
11. Karow, P., (1994), Font Technology (Methods and Tools), Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
12. Mahmood, S. A., (1994), Arabic Character Recognition using Fourier Descriptors and Character Contour Encoding, Patter Recognition, Elsevier Science, Vol. 27(6), 815-824.
13. Moriyama, M., Yoshimoto, F. and Harada, T. (1998) A method of plane data fitting with a genetic algorithm. Proc. of the lasted International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, pages 21-31.
14. Sarfraz, M., and Khan, M. A. (2001), Automatic Outline Capture of Arabic Fonts, Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier Science Inc., Vol. 140(3-4), 269-281.
15. Sarfraz, M, and Raza, A, (2002), Visualization of Data using Genetic Algorithm, The Proceedings of the Fourth KFUPM Workshop on Information and Computer Science: Internet Computing (WICS'2002), Saudi Arabia, ISBN: 9960-07-187-1, 253-265.
16. Sarfraz, M., and Raza, S. A., (2001), Capturing Outline of Fonts using Genetic Algorithm and Splines, The Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization-IV'2001-UK, IEEE Computer Society Press, USA, 738-743.
17. Safraz, M., (1994), Cubic Spline Curves with Shape Control, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier Science, 18(5), 707-713.