A structural model of continuous transformation of handwritten characters

Author

Nishida, Hirobumi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Aizu Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Aug 1995

Firstpage

685

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1995., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7128-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1995.601994

Filename

601994