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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2004.14.1.057

Word Separation in Handwritten Legal Amounts on Bank Check by Measuring Gap Distance Between Connected Components  

Kim, In-Cheol (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) Concordia University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.14, no.1, 2004 , pp. 57-62 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have proposed an efficient method of word separation in a handwritten legal amount on bank check based on the spatial gaps between the connected components. The previous gap measures all suffer from the inherent problem of underestimation or overestimation that causes a deterioration in separation performance. In order to alleviate such burden, we have developed a modified version of each distance measure. Also, 4 class clustering based method of integrating three different types of distance measures has been proposed to compensate effectively the errors in each measure, whereby further improvement in performance of word separation is expected. Through a series of word separation experiments, we found that the modified distance measures show a better performance with over 2 - 3% of the word separation rate than their corresponding original distance measures. In addition, the proposed combining method based on 4-class clustering achieved further improvement by effectively reducing the errors common to two of three distance measures as well as the individual errors.
Keywords
단어 추출;연결 성분 간 간격 추정;군집화에 의한 간격 분류;필기체 문장 금액;
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