A similar Chinese character detection algorithm that fuses Chinese character images and encoding
<p>Chun Wang, Dejun Chen</p> · Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science · 2024
In the past, research on similar Chinese characters often focused on extracting the contours and structures of Chinese character images for comparison, or encoding the sound, form, and meaning of Chinese characters to measure their string similarity. However, similar characters found by such methods often have homophones but different structures. In this paper, we propose a fusion algorithm that combines Chinese character images with Chinese character encoding to fully extract the structural, stroke, stroke order, and contour features of Chinese characters. Based on these features, we can find a list of characters that are more similar to the original characters in terms of character structure and stroke order. The algorithm first selects specific pixel lattice to measure the similarity of Chinese character glyphs based on different Chinese character structures. Then, combined with the four corner stroke order encoding of Chinese characters, the structural stroke order similarity of Chinese characters is calculated through Jaro Winkler Distance. Finally, the fusion of the two results in the similarity of two Chinese character glyphs. The experimental results show that the similarity algorithm, which incorporates the advantages of image and encoding, can better obtain a list of similar characters with the same glyph structure and similar stroke order.