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Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Applications pp 95–123Cite as

Chinese Character Recognition

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Abstract

An approach to Chinese character recognition, based on a formal model of the pictorial structure of Chinese characters, is described. A program has been written which produces a description of a character on two levels: i) the internal structure of each connected part of the character, and ii) the arrangement in two dimensions of the connected parts. A numeric code is generated from the structural representation of a character, and is used for recognition.

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Abbreviations

IOJC:

Preprints for Seminar on Input/Output Systems for Japanese and Chinese Characters, U.S.-Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation, Tokyo (1971)

UJCC:

Proceedings of the First U.S.A.-Japan Computer Conference, Tokyo (1972)

PPR:

Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, Washington (1973)

CCIO:

Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Computers and Chinese Input/Output Systems, Taipei (1973)

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    King Sun Fu PhD

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Stallings, W.W. (1977). Chinese Character Recognition. In: Fu, K.S. (eds) Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Applications. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66438-0_5

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