Global Interpolation in the Segmentation of Handwritten Characters Overlapping a Border

Satoshi NAOI; Maki YABUKI; Atsuko ASAKAWA; Yoshinobu HOTTA

Global Interpolation in the Segmentation of Handwritten Characters Overlapping a Border

Satoshi NAOI, Maki YABUKI, Atsuko ASAKAWA, Yoshinobu HOTTA

Full Text Views

0

Cite this

Summary :

The global interpolation method we propose evaluates segment pattern continuity and connectedness to produce characters with smooth edges while interpreting blank or missing segments based on global label connectivities, e.g, in extracting a handwritten character overlapping a border, correctly. Conventional character segmentation involving overlapping a border concentrates on removing the thin border based on known format information rather than extracting the character. This generates discontinuous segments which produce distortion due to thinning and errors in direction codes, and is the problem to recognize the extracted character. In our method, characters contacting a border are extracted after the border itself is labeled and removed automatically by devising how to extract wavy and oblique borders involved in fax communication. The absence of character segments is then interpolated based on segment continuity. Interpolated segments are relabeled and checked for matching against the original labeled pattern. If a match cannot be made, segments are reinterpolated until they can be identified. Experimental results show that global interpolation interprets the absence of character segments correctly and generates with smooth edges.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E78-D No.7 pp.909-916

Publication Date: 1995/07/25

Publicized

Online ISSN

DOI

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition

Cite this

Copy

Satoshi NAOI, Maki YABUKI, Atsuko ASAKAWA, Yoshinobu HOTTA, "Global Interpolation in the Segmentation of Handwritten Characters Overlapping a Border" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E78-D, no. 7, pp. 909-916, July 1995, doi: .
Abstract: The global interpolation method we propose evaluates segment pattern continuity and connectedness to produce characters with smooth edges while interpreting blank or missing segments based on global label connectivities, e.g, in extracting a handwritten character overlapping a border, correctly. Conventional character segmentation involving overlapping a border concentrates on removing the thin border based on known format information rather than extracting the character. This generates discontinuous segments which produce distortion due to thinning and errors in direction codes, and is the problem to recognize the extracted character. In our method, characters contacting a border are extracted after the border itself is labeled and removed automatically by devising how to extract wavy and oblique borders involved in fax communication. The absence of character segments is then interpolated based on segment continuity. Interpolated segments are relabeled and checked for matching against the original labeled pattern. If a match cannot be made, segments are reinterpolated until they can be identified. Experimental results show that global interpolation interprets the absence of character segments correctly and generates with smooth edges.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/e78-d_7_909/_p

Copy

@ARTICLE{e78-d_7_909,
author={Satoshi NAOI, Maki YABUKI, Atsuko ASAKAWA, Yoshinobu HOTTA, },
journal={IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information},
title={Global Interpolation in the Segmentation of Handwritten Characters Overlapping a Border},
year={1995},
volume={E78-D},
number={7},
pages={909-916},
abstract={The global interpolation method we propose evaluates segment pattern continuity and connectedness to produce characters with smooth edges while interpreting blank or missing segments based on global label connectivities, e.g, in extracting a handwritten character overlapping a border, correctly. Conventional character segmentation involving overlapping a border concentrates on removing the thin border based on known format information rather than extracting the character. This generates discontinuous segments which produce distortion due to thinning and errors in direction codes, and is the problem to recognize the extracted character. In our method, characters contacting a border are extracted after the border itself is labeled and removed automatically by devising how to extract wavy and oblique borders involved in fax communication. The absence of character segments is then interpolated based on segment continuity. Interpolated segments are relabeled and checked for matching against the original labeled pattern. If a match cannot be made, segments are reinterpolated until they can be identified. Experimental results show that global interpolation interprets the absence of character segments correctly and generates with smooth edges.},
keywords={},
doi={},
ISSN={},
month={July},}

Copy

TY - JOUR
TI - Global Interpolation in the Segmentation of Handwritten Characters Overlapping a Border
T2 - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SP - 909
EP - 916
AU - Satoshi NAOI
AU - Maki YABUKI
AU - Atsuko ASAKAWA
AU - Yoshinobu HOTTA
PY - 1995
DO -
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SN -
VL - E78-D
IS - 7
JA - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Y1 - July 1995
AB - The global interpolation method we propose evaluates segment pattern continuity and connectedness to produce characters with smooth edges while interpreting blank or missing segments based on global label connectivities, e.g, in extracting a handwritten character overlapping a border, correctly. Conventional character segmentation involving overlapping a border concentrates on removing the thin border based on known format information rather than extracting the character. This generates discontinuous segments which produce distortion due to thinning and errors in direction codes, and is the problem to recognize the extracted character. In our method, characters contacting a border are extracted after the border itself is labeled and removed automatically by devising how to extract wavy and oblique borders involved in fax communication. The absence of character segments is then interpolated based on segment continuity. Interpolated segments are relabeled and checked for matching against the original labeled pattern. If a match cannot be made, segments are reinterpolated until they can be identified. Experimental results show that global interpolation interprets the absence of character segments correctly and generates with smooth edges.
ER -