A SPECIAL SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHM FOR CURSIVE WORDS

Tal STEINHERZ, Nathan INTRATOR

Tel­Aviv University
Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
(talstz,nin)@math.tau.ac.il

and Ehud RIVLIN

Department of Computer Science
Technion
Haifa 32000, Israel
ehudr@cs.technion.ac.il

We present a novel approach for finding a pseudo­skeleton of a cursive word's image. This pseudo­skeleton preserves all the necessary components of a cursive word such as: loops, curves, junctions, end­points etc. It is expected to be useful for cursive word recognition. Keywords: Skeleton, Thinning, Cursive Words.

In: L.R.B. Schomaker and L.G. Vuurpijl (Eds.)
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers
in Handwriting Recognition, September 11-13 2000, Amsterdam,
Nijmegen: International Unipen Foundation,
ISBN 90-76942-01-3
pp. 529-534.