A stochastic representation of cursive Chinese characters for on-line recognition

Tzren Ru Chou; Wen Tsuen Chen

doi:10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00102-1

A stochastic representation of cursive Chinese characters for on-line recognition

Tzren Ru Chou
, Wen Tsuen Chen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, a stochastic representation of on-line Chinese characters of cursive style is proposed. A character in this representation is modeled by a sequence of concatenated stochastic curves, termed stochastic cubic Bézier curves (SCBC), with random noises. Furthermore, we also propose a curve alignment procedure to consistently match an input character with a stochastic reference one. Some classification experiments were performed. The stochastic approach is hardly sensitive to the characters with linked and degraded strokes; meanwhile, its recognition rate is higher than 95% even for deformed confusing characters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	903-920
Number of pages	18
Journal	Pattern Recognition
Volume	30
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00102-1
Publication status	Published - 1997 Jun
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bézier curves
De Casteljau algorithm
Dynamic programming
Elastic matching
Mahalanobis distance
Maximum likelihood estimation
On-line character recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence

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