Improved structuring element for handwriting and hand printed characters skeleton

Authors:
Dan L. Lacrăma;Florin Alexa
Affiliations:
Computer Science Faculty, "Tibiscus" University of Timişoara, Timişoara, România;Electronic and Telecommunication Faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timişoara, Timişoara, România
Venue:
ICCOMP'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Computers: part of the 14th WSEAS CSCC multiconference - Volume I
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper advocates the use of an optimized homotropic transformation structural element. Its use improves the sequential thinning procedure producing less coarse skeleton lines with a reduced number of thinning cycles. The employment of adaptive binarization is also discussed when the documents' images are not best quality. Experimental results are shown for both handwrite and hand printed documents' processing.