A novel approach for structural feature extraction: Contour vs. direction Export

@article{citeulike:820299, abstract = {The paper presents a novel approach for extracting structural features from segmented cursive handwriting. The proposed approach is based on the contour code and stroke direction. The contour code feature utilises the rate of change of slope along the contour profile in addition to other properties such as the ascender and descender count, start point and end point. The direction feature identifies individual line segments or strokes from the character's outer boundary or thinned representation and highlights each character's pertinent direction information. Each feature is investigated employing a benchmark database and the experimental results using the proposed contour code based structural feature are very promising. A comparative evaluation with the directional feature and existing transition feature is included.}, author = {Verma, Brijesh and Blumenstein, Michael and Ghosh, Moumita}, citeulike-article-id = {820299}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2004.02.013}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V15-4C2FGSK-1/2/b65a4af310c7d1c9ee08b27b110fa2e3}, day = {2}, doi = {10.1016/j.patrec.2004.02.013}, journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters}, keywords = {contour, extraction, feature}, month = {July}, number = {9}, pages = {975--988}, posted-at = {2006-08-29 02:26:03}, priority = {4}, title = {A novel approach for structural feature extraction: Contour vs. direction}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2004.02.013}, volume = {25}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:820299 L3 - citeulike-article-id:820299 N2 - The paper presents a novel approach for extracting structural features from segmented cursive handwriting. The proposed approach is based on the contour code and stroke direction. The contour code feature utilises the rate of change of slope along the contour profile in addition to other properties such as the ascender and descender count, start point and end point. The direction feature identifies individual line segments or strokes from the character's outer boundary or thinned representation and highlights each character's pertinent direction information. Each feature is investigated employing a benchmark database and the experimental results using the proposed contour code based structural feature are very promising. A comparative evaluation with the directional feature and existing transition feature is included. IS - 9 JF - Pattern Recognition Letters EP - 988 TI - A novel approach for structural feature extraction: Contour vs. direction VL - 25 SP - 975 KW - contour KW - extraction KW - feature AU - Verma, Brijesh AU - Blumenstein, Michael AU - Ghosh, Moumita PY - 2004/07/02/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2004.02.013 ER -