An Approach of Removing Stroke Based on Touching Pattern for Handwritten Digits Segmentation

DOI

10.2991/icacsei.2013.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Water reservoirs, handwritten digits segmentation, remove stroke

Abstract

For finding precise segmentation, a new approach to remove and amend stroke connecting touching handwriting digits based on touching pattern is presented. Firstly, background region of touching digits is analyzed by using water reservoirs concept, and then the classification scheme is developed to identify the pattern of touching digits according to the structural features. In single-point touching type, two touching pairs of digits can be connected with a ligature, which can be a component of one of the digits or belong to no digit. After segmentation is performed to get isolated digits. the pattern-oriented ligature analysis investigates whether candidate ligature is a part of digit or a useless stroke and decides to be preserved or be removed. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective for segmentation of handwritten touching digits and segmentation errors have been reduced.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rui Ma
AU  - Ya ping Cheng
AU  - Yun hua Gu
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - An Approach of Removing Stroke Based on Touching Pattern for Handwritten Digits Segmentation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Electronics Information (ICACSEI 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 237
EP  - 240
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icacsei.2013.59
DO  - 10.2991/icacsei.2013.59
ID  - Ma2013/08
ER  -