Text-line extraction in handwritten chinese documents based on an energy minimization framework

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1169-1175

  Koo, Hyung Il ^a   Cho, Nam Ik ^b  

^a Qualcomm Korea RandD Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Handwritten Chinese document; state estimation in document images; text line extraction

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DOCUMENTS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CURVILINEARITY; DETECTION RATES; DOCUMENT IMAGES; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; ERROR RATE; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; LINE SPACING; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TEXT LINES;

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84857338137     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2166972     Document Type: Article

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