Title :
Font segmentation of non-rotated, printed symbols in the vector representation
Author :
Weisteen, Katrine ; Taxt, Torfinn
Author_Institution :
Image Processing Group, NR Norwegian Comput. Center, Oslo, Norway
fDate :
30 Aug-3 Sep 1992
Abstract :
The ability of three different methods to separate nonrotated symbols of fonts with different slope angles is examined. The authors compare the properties of the elliptic Fourier descriptors of Kuhl and Giardina with the Fourier descriptors of Zahn and Roskies and the grid method
Keywords :
character recognition; character sets; image segmentation; elliptic Fourier descriptors; fonts; grid method; nonrotated symbols; printed symbols; slope angles; vector representation; Clocks; Covariance matrix; Fourier series; Gaussian distribution; Graphics; Image processing; Image segmentation; Technical drawing;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.II. Conference B: Pattern Recognition Methodology and Systems, Proceedings., 11th IAPR International Conference on
Conference_Location :
The Hague
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2915-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1992.201865
