An automatic algorithm for approximating boundary of bitmap characters

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1327-1336

  Sarfraz, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Murtaza A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Boundary points; Break points; Corner points; Cubic Bezier; Digital character images; Reparameterization; Significant points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WORD PROCESSING;

BOUNDARY POINTS; BREAK POINTS; CORNER POINTS; CUBIC BEZIER; DIGITAL CHARACTER IMAGES; REPARAMETERIZATION; SIGNIFICANT POINTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 7044231699     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2004.05.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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