caa a22 4500 469051515 CHVBK 20180323132831.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02626997 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02626997 Thinning and segmenting handwritten characters by line following [Elektronische Daten] [Claude Chouinard, Réjean Plamondon] This article presents a new thinning algorithm particularly well suited to handwriting characters or engineering drawing images. The line following scheme is used with major improvements to reduce the distortion at intersections. The new algorithm uses a thinning window to detect the shape and type of each intersection it is about to thin. This added information allows for a much more accurate thinning process. The algorithm also segments the skeleton into line segments as it is generated. These lines correlate partly with the strokes that produced the image. To analyze the performance of the new algorithm, a comparative study of the skeletons is performed over speed and quality criteria. This study shows that the algorithm reduces the distortion at the line intersections while remaining fast. Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1992 thinning algorithm nationallicence line following nationallicence segmentation nationallicence handwriting nationallicence skeleton nationallicence Chouinard Claude Laboratoire Scribens, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 Station A, H3C 3A7, Montréal, P.Q., Canada aut Plamondon Réjean Laboratoire Scribens, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 Station A, H3C 3A7, Montréal, P.Q., Canada aut Machine Vision and Applications Springer-Verlag 5/3(1992-06-01), 185-197 0932-8092 5:3<185 1992 5 138 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02626997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02626997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chouinard Claude Laboratoire Scribens, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 Station A, H3C 3A7, Montréal, P.Q., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Plamondon Réjean Laboratoire Scribens, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 Station A, H3C 3A7, Montréal, P.Q., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Machine Vision and Applications Springer-Verlag 5/3(1992-06-01), 185-197 0932-8092 5:3<185 1992 5 138 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer