Performance analysis of an OCR system via an artificial handwritten Chinese character generator

Author

Tung, Cheng-Huang ; Chen, Yuan-Jong ; Lee, Hsi-Jian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

1993

fDate

20-22 Oct 1993

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

318

Abstract

A handwritten Chinese character generator that generates handwritten Chinese characters with different variations is proposed and used for evaluating the performance of an OCR system. The character generator first generates radicals of a character stroke by stroke and then combines the generated radicals to form a line-vector character. Then, the line-vector character is thickened to obtain a character image. The generated characters are then used to evaluate the stability of stroke extractors and calculate the peak performance of a matching module and the recognition error caused by stroke extractors

Keywords

handwriting recognition; optical character recognition; performance evaluation; OCR system; artificial handwritten Chinese character generator; character image; character stroke; line-vector character; matching module; peak performance; performance evaluation; recognition error; stability; stroke extractors; Character generation; Character recognition; Computer science; Gaussian distribution; Image generation; Optical character recognition software; Performance analysis; Spatial databases; Stability; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1993., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba Science City

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4960-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395724

Filename

395724