Title :
Optical recognition of handwritten Chinese characters by partial matching
Author :
Wang, An-Bang ; Huang, Jun S. ; Fan, Kuo-Chin
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Taiwan
Abstract :
Chinese characters are basically composed of few radicals, and it is essential to recognize the radicals inside a character before recognizing the whole character. A partial matching algorithm that is based on a modified relaxation method is proposed to do radical recognition on a scanned input character. Experiments are carried out with 204 constrained handwritten characters, each containing two to five radicals, for matching 16 radical templates. The total recognition rate is 63.3%. But the rate of identifying at least one radical in a character is 97%
Keywords :
handwriting recognition; image matching; optical character recognition; constrained handwritten characters; handwritten Chinese characters; modified relaxation method; optical character recognition; partial matching; radical templates; radicals; scanned input character; Character recognition; Databases; Handwriting recognition; Impedance matching; Information science; Optical feedback; Proposals; Relaxation methods; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1993., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba Science City
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4960-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395611
