Character recognition using a biorthogonal discrete wavelet transform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2825, Issue , 1996, Pages 384-393

  Kapogiannopoulos, George S ^a   Papadakis, Manos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Military Academy   (Greece)

Author keywords

curvature; multiresolution analysis; OCR; shape representation; wavelets

Indexed keywords

BIORTHOGONAL DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; CURVATURE; CURVATURE FUNCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; OCR; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; SMALL TRAINING; WAVELETS; WRITING STYLE;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 78751609017     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.255249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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