Title :
A structural model of continuous transformation of handwritten characters
Author :
Nishida, Hirobumi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Aizu Univ., Japan
Abstract :
An essential problem in handwriting recognition is how to cope with complex shape deformation, and therefore, the modeling of the deformation and its metamorphosis (transformation of an instance of a class into an instance of the other class via continuous transformation) is a key to breaking through the difficulties in handwriting recognition. Based on the structural feature extraction and description by Nishida (1995), we present a model for structural deformation with simple, local operations that preserve the global structure of the shape. Furthermore, we present an experimental approach to the analysis of metamorphosis of character shapes based on the structural deformation model
Keywords :
character recognition; feature extraction; handwriting recognition; mathematical morphology; complex shape deformation; continuous transformation; handwriting recognition; handwritten characters; local operations; pattern recognition; structural deformation; structural deformation model; structural feature extraction; structural model; Algorithm design and analysis; Character recognition; Computer science; Deformable models; Feature extraction; Handwriting recognition; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Shape; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1995., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7128-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1995.601994
