New features using fractal multi-dimensions for generalized Arabic font recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-371

  Ben Moussa, Sami ^a,b   Zahour, Abderrazak ^b   Benabdelhafid, Abdellatif ^b   Alimi, Adel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

Arabic written; Fractal features; OCR; Optical font recognition; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING DIMENSION; EXISTING METHOD; FEATURE VECTORS; FONT RECOGNITION; FRACTAL FEATURE; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; GAUSSIAN NOISE; HUMAN VISION SYSTEMS; IMAGE DEGRADATION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; OPTICAL FONT RECOGNITION; PARAMETRIC FORMS; RADIAL BASIC FUNCTION; RECOGNITION RATES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SECURITY OF DATA; TEXTURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 75149173816     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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