Segmentation of overlapped and touching handwritten chinese strings

Lei Ai*, Shujing Lu, Ying Wen, Yue Lu

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Abstract

In this paper, we present segmentation of handwritten Chinese strings in presence of overlapped and touching characters. A contour tracing based method is proposed to segment the overlapped characters. To segment touching characters, a corner point analysis method is carried out to identify the cutting positions. Experimental results on 564 Chinese character strings captured from postal mail pieces show the effectiveness of the proposed methods on the segmentation of handwritten Chinese character strings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances on Digital Television and Wireless Multimedia Communications - 9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012, Proceedings
Pages169-174
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 9 Nov 201210 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume331 CCI
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period9/11/1210/11/12

Keywords

  • Character Segmentation
  • Contour tracing
  • Handwritten Chinese characters
  • Overlapped characters
  • Touching characters

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