Title
Special Radical Detection by Statistical Classification for On-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
Abstract
The hierarchical nature of Chinese characters has inspired radical-based recognition, but radical segmentation from characters remains a challenge. We previously proposed a radical-based approach for on-line handwritten Chinese character recognition, which incorporates character structure knowledge into integrated radical segmentation and recognition, and performs well on characters of left-right and up-down structures (non-special structures). In this paper, we propose a statistical-classification-based method for detecting special radicals from special-structure characters. We design 19 binary classifiers for classifying candidate radicals (groups of strokes) hypothesized from the input character. Characters with special radicals detected are recognized using special-structure models, while those without special radicals are recognized using the models for non-special structures. We applied the recognition framework to 6,763 character classes, and achieved promising recognition performance in experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICFHR.2010.83
ICFHR
Keywords
Field
DocType
chinese character,special radical detection,non-special structure,special radical,radical-based recognition,statistical classification,input character,on-line handwritten chinese character,promising recognition performance,character structure knowledge,recognition framework,character class,image segmentation,binary classifier,image classification,support vector machines,handwriting recognition,statistical analysis,chinese,feature extraction,shape,natural language processing,hidden markov models
Computer science,Handwriting recognition,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Character structure,Intelligent word recognition,Chinese characters,Pattern recognition,Intelligent character recognition,Feature extraction,Speech recognition,Statistical classification,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Long-long Ma1265.72
Adrien Delaye21096.98
Cheng-Lin Liu34367239.75