New approach for the skeletonization of handwritten characters in gray-level images

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 1233-1237

  Dawoud, Amer ^a   Kamel, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; BINS;

BINARIZATIONS; END POINTS; GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; GRAY-LEVEL; HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS; NEW APPROACHES; NOISE IMMUNITY; SKELETONIZATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 67349177182     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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