Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2003, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 11-14.

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A New Stroke-based Directional Feature Extraction Approach for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition

Gao Xue1 Jin Lian-wen1 Yin Jun-xun1 Huang Jian-cheng2#br#   

  1. 1.Dept.of Electronics and Communication Engineering‚South China Univ.of Tech.‚Guangzhou510640‚China; 2.Motorola China Research Center‚Shanghai200002‚China
  • Online:2003-03-20 Published:2022-04-15
  • Contact: 高学 (1967-)‚男‚博士生‚主要从事图像处理与识别研究.
  • About author:高学 (1967-)‚男‚博士生‚主要从事图像处理与识别研究.

Abstract:  A new directional feature extraction approach based on stroke directional decomposition of a Chinese character is proposed.Without extracting the skeleton or contour of the character‚the four directional sub-patterns‚namely‚horizontal‚vertical‚left up diagonal and right up diagonal sub-patterns are obtained directly by analyzing the stroke directional characteristics of the character.Then five kinds of elastic meshing methods are presented to extract cellular directional features.Finally‚experiments on handwritten samples from HCL2000are carried on which prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Key words: directional decomposition, handwritten Chinese character recognition, feature extraction

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