Title :
Isolated character recognition by searching feature points
Author :
Iwamura, Masakazu ; Negishi, Kazuya ; Omachi, Shinichiro ; Aso, Hirotomo
Author_Institution :
Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan
fDate :
29 Aug.-1 Sept. 2005
Abstract :
Conventional segmentation technique cannot extract difficult characters such as an isolated character and a touching character. In this paper, we propose a novel character recognition method which executes segmentation and recognition simultaneously. This method enables us to extract and recognize such difficult characters. The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by experiments.
Keywords :
character recognition; feature extraction; image segmentation; character segmentation; feature point searching; isolated character recognition; Area measurement; Character recognition; Feature extraction; Filters; Histograms; Image segmentation; Pixel; Robustness; Text analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2420-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2005.147