Recognition and segmentation of connected characters with selective attention

✍ Scribed by Kunihiko Fukushima; Taro Imagawa

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 793 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-6080
• DOI: 10.1016/s0893-6080(05)80071-1

✦ Synopsis

~I "e have modified the original model of selective attention, which was previmtsly proposed by Fukushima, and e~tended its ability to recognize attd segment connected characters in cmwive handwriting. Although the or~¢inal model q/'sdective attention ah'ead)' /tad the abilio' to recognize and segment patterns, it did not alwa)w work well when too many patterns were presented simuhaneousl): In order to restrict the nttmher q/patterns to be processed simultaneousO; a search controller has been added to the original model. Tlw new mode/mainly processes the patterns contained in a small "search area, " which is mo~vd b)' the search controller A ptvliminao' ev~eriment with compltter simttlatiott has shown that this approach is promisittg. The recogttition arid segmentation q[k'haracters can be sttcces~[itl even thottgh each character itt a handwritten word changes its .shape h)" the e[]'ect o./the charactetw belbre and bdfind.