Title :
Integrated morphological image information method for complex transformed images
Author :
Takahashi, Kunio ; Amanuma, Hiroshi ; Miyazaki, Takayuki ; Chiba, Shuuhou
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents new recognition method for handwritten Chinese characters. A number of integrated morphological image information based on complex transformed images and subareas is used to get a good recognition rate. Similarity by morphological features are used for recognition. Complex images are obtained by the distance transform and nonlinear normalization. Instead of selective use of complex image information and integrated image information, the general similarity of each similarity based on complex images, subareas and integrated image information is used to get good recognition. General similarity is based on the deviation value of each similarity. We obtained a recognition rate of 99.71% for ETL-9, the best in the world
Keywords :
character recognition; mathematical morphology; transforms; character recognition method; complex transformed images; distance transform; general similarity; handwritten Chinese characters; integrated morphological image information; morphological features similarity; nonlinear normalization; recognition rate; similarity deviation value; Character recognition; Dictionaries; Feature extraction; Handwriting recognition; Image databases; Image recognition; Spatial databases;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Proceedings, 2000. WCCC-ICSP 2000. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5747-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2000.891689