Details of Research: Segmentation of Touching Characters

In my opinion, the segmentation of characters is an essential task in character recognition. This opinion may be easily accepted by U.S. and European researchers. I feel, however, many researchers in Japan are engaged in the recognition algorithm of the isolated characters and do not pay attention to the segmentation problem, esp. for the cursive English words.

I think we have developed, FIRST IN THE WORLD, a practical system which could recognize the touching handwritten numerics.

References

H. Fujisawa, Y. Nakano and K. Kurino; Segmentation Methods for Character, Recognition, Proc. IEEE, 80[7], pp.1079-1092 (1992)
H. Yamada and Y. Nakano; Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition Using Multiple Segmentation Determined by Contour Analysis, IEICE Transaction INF. & SYST., Vol.E79-D, pp. 464-470 (1996)

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