Algorithm for offline handwritten Chinese character segmentation based on stroke bounding box
Yuming Jiang · Jisuanji gongcheng yu sheji · 2005
Chinese character segmentation is an important partof the preprocessing of offline handwritten Chinese character. An modified algorithm for Chinese characterssegmentation based on stroke bounding box is implemented. The length ofdirectional runs-based strokes are extracted. And then the bounding box for each stroke is constructed. A coarse segmentation of the character is obtained after four basic merging operation are applied. Finally, a dynamic programming method is used to find the optimal segmentation boundaries. Experiments show that the method can avoid the segmentation errors caused by the touched or overlapped strokes.