Segmentation Approach for Handwritten Characters Based on Gray Scale and Binary Image
Jingyu Yang · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2007
In order to avoid the limitation of the existing segmentation algorithms based on gray-scale image or binary image,this paper presents an approach of handwritten characters segmentation which makes use of the characteristics of gray-scale image and binary image.The characters image is divided into some segmentation regions,each of which contains a segmentation path.Viterbi algorithm is employed to detect the non-linear segmentation path in each region for separating the connected characters.The algorithm performs the search process by combining the information of gray scale and binary images.Experimental results show the proposed approach is effective for handwritten characters segmentation.