A bezier curve-based approach to shape description for Chinese calligraphy characters

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 276-280

  Yang, Hsi Ming ^a   Lu, Jainn Jyh ^a   Lee, Hsi Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bezier curve; Corner point; Curve fitting; Shape description

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; INTERPOLATION;

BEZIER CURVE; CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY CHARACTERS; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CONTOUR SEGMENTS; CORNER POINT; CUBIC BEZIER CURVE; CURVATURE POINTS; SHAPE DESCRIPTION;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 84951785919     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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