A Method for Segmentation of Cursive Handwritings and its Application to Character Shape Extraction.

Jiang Gao Xiaoqing Ding

Published in: ICIP (2000)

Keyphrases

segmentation algorithm
segmentation method
image segmentation
energy functional
edge detection
object shape
prior information
fully automatic
image regions
shape representation
energy function
chinese characters
segmentation accuracy
statistical shape model
level set
chain code
shape decomposition