Detection and segmentation of touching characters in mathematical expressions

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 126-130

  Nomura, Akihiro ^a   Michishita, Kazuyuki ^a   Uchida, Seiichi ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; CHARACTER IMAGES; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DETECTION STAGE; FEATURE VALUES; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; TOUCHING CHARACTER; TWO-COMPONENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84945969343     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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