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An Efficient Slant Correction for Handwritten Hangul Strings using Structural Properties  

유대근 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
김경환 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
Abstract
A slant correction method for handwritten Korean strings based on analysis of stroke distribution, which effectively reflects structural properties of Korean characters, is presented in this paper. The method aims to deal with typical problems which have been frequently observed in slant correction of handwritten Korean strings with conventional approaches developed for English/European languages. Extracted strokes from a line of text image are classified into two clusters by applying the K-means clustering. Gaussian modeling is applied to each of the clusters and the slant angle is estimated from the model which represents the vertical strokes. Experimental results support the effectiveness of the proposed method. For the performance comparison 1,300 handwritten address string images were used, and the results show that the proposed method has more superior performance than other conventional approaches.
Keywords
Handwritten string processing; Hangul image analysis; Slant correction; K-means clustering; Gaussian modeling;
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