The problem of separating words in a handwritten line is made difficult by the presence of non-uniform spacing between words and between characters within a word. A central sub-problem in word separation is the estimation of gaps between adjacent components in a line. We present a new technique to estimate inter-component distances that is based on the gap between their convex hulls. The technique evolved through a study of the drawbacks in previous approaches to gap estimation, and is shown to be better in terms of performance and robustness.


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    Title :

    Gap metrics for word separation in handwritten lines


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    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


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    345130 byte




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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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