Improving the Use of Contours and Skeletons for Off-Line Cursive Script Segmentation.

Angelo Chianese Massimo De Santo Antonio Picariello

Published in: ICIAP (2) (1997)

Keyphrases

cursive script
word recognition
character recognition
character segmentation
pattern recognition
shape representation
contour detection
d objects
skeleton extraction
hidden markov models
segmentation algorithm
speech recognition
distance transform
active contours
query expansion
handwritten words
distance maps