Chinese Character Structure Models for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition

By choosing stroke and sub stroke as basic components to analyse the composition regularities and deformation regularities of handwritten Chinese character, two models are presented for representing the structure for handwritten Chinese character recognition: the sub stroke center model and the stroke relation matrix model, as the classifying criteria and methods based on models. According to the proposed models, a two stage Chinese character recognition system is developed, that applies the sub stroke center model in the first stage and stroke relation matrix model in the second stage. Experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed models.