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Title: Substroke matching by segmenting and merging for online Korean cursive character recognition
Author (s): Kim, Chang-Soo
Kang Ryoung Park
Byung Hwan Jun
Jaihie Kim
Department/Lab Affiliations: Biological Sciences
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Intelligent Microsystem Laboratory
Keywords: alphabet-based method
handwritten character recognition
image segmentation
ligatures
merging
online Korean cursive character recognition
substroke matching
Issue Date: 1998
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation: Chang Soo Kim; Kang Ryoung Park; Byung Hwan Jun; Jaihie Kim, "Substroke matching by segmenting and merging for online Korean cursive character recognition," Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998 Proceedings, vol.2, pp.1110-1113, 16-20 Aug 1998
Abstract: The Korean character is composed of several alphabets in two-dimensional formation and the total number of Korean characters exceeds eleven thousand. Therefore, the previous approaches to Korean cursive characters pay most of their attention to segmenting a character into alphabets accurately. However, it is difficult because the boundaries of alphabets are not apparent in most cases. We propose an alphabet-based method without assuming accurate alphabet segmentation. In the proposed method, a cursive character is segmented into substrokes by a set of segmenting conditions. Then it is matched with the reference substrokes generated from alphabet models and ligatures by segmenting and merging in the process of recognition. Among substrokes, a certain substroke can be either an alphabet itself a part of alphabet or a composite of the alphabet and ligature. We applied the proposed method to 5000 Korean characters and got the result of 83.4% for the first rank and 89.2% for the top 5 result candidates with the speed of 0.17 seconds on average per character on a PC which uses Intel Pentium 90 Mhz CPU.
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titleSubstroke matching by segmenting and merging for online Korean cursive character recognition
contributor.authorKim, Chang-Soo
contributor.authorKang Ryoung Park
contributor.authorByung Hwan Jun
contributor.authorJaihie Kim
contributor.deptlabBiological Sciences
contributor.deptlabElectrical and Computer Engineering
contributor.deptlabIntelligent Microsystem Laboratory
subjectalphabet-based method
subjecthandwritten character recognition
subjectimage segmentation
subjectligatures
subjectmerging
subjectonline Korean cursive character recognition
subjectsubstroke matching
date.issued1998
date.submitted2007
publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
identifier.citationChang Soo Kim; Kang Ryoung Park; Byung Hwan Jun; Jaihie Kim, "Substroke matching by segmenting and merging for online Korean cursive character recognition," Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998 Proceedings, vol.2, pp.1110-1113, 16-20 Aug 1998
identifier.pub.URI
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/5726/15322/00711888.pdf?arnumber=71188
description.abstractThe Korean character is composed of several alphabets in two-dimensional formation and the total number of Korean characters exceeds eleven thousand. Therefore, the previous approaches to Korean cursive characters pay most of their attention to segmenting a character into alphabets accurately. However, it is difficult because the boundaries of alphabets are not apparent in most cases. We propose an alphabet-based method without assuming accurate alphabet segmentation. In the proposed method, a cursive character is segmented into substrokes by a set of segmenting conditions. Then it is matched with the reference substrokes generated from alphabet models and ligatures by segmenting and merging in the process of recognition. Among substrokes, a certain substroke can be either an alphabet itself a part of alphabet or a composite of the alphabet and ligature. We applied the proposed method to 5000 Korean characters and got the result of 83.4% for the first rank and 89.2% for the top 5 result candidates with the speed of 0.17 seconds on average per character on a PC which uses Intel Pentium 90 Mhz CPU.
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