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A Thinning Model for Handwriting-Like Image Skeleton

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Computer Engineering and Networking

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 277))

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In order to solve the letter skeleton problem with handwriting-like attributes, a thinning model is used in this paper. By introducing improved reservation and eliminating produces, additional pixels are constrained by thinning nearest pixels. In the experiment, the proposed method is compared with others in the literature English letters by using the one pass thinning algorithm (OPTA) and Hilditch methods. Empirical results show that the proposed model can thin handwriting-like skeleton in terms of reserving topology and eliminating extra pixels.

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  1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Shijiao Zhu & Jun Yang

  2. Department of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Xue-fang Zhu

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  1. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

    W. Eric Wong

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, People’s Republic

    Tingshao Zhu

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Zhu, S., Yang, J., Zhu, Xf. (2014). A Thinning Model for Handwriting-Like Image Skeleton. In: Wong, W.E., Zhu, T. (eds) Computer Engineering and Networking. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01766-2_79

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