TY - CONF T1 - A recognition algorithm for Chinese characters in diverse fonts T2 - Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on Y1 - 2002 A1 - Wu,Xianli A1 - M. Wu KW - algorithm; KW - central KW - character KW - Chinese KW - contributions; KW - direction KW - discriminator; KW - diverse KW - fonts; KW - image KW - interfaces; KW - LANGUAGE KW - MATCHING KW - matching; KW - multi-dictionary KW - natural KW - OCR KW - optical KW - peripheral KW - recognition KW - recognition; KW - sets; KW - software KW - system; AB - The paper proposes an algorithm for recognizing Chinese characters in many diverse fonts including Song, Fang, Kai, Hei, Yuan, Lishu, Weibei and Xingkai. The algorithm is based on features derived from peripheral direction contributions and utilizes a set of dictionaries. A 3-level matching is first performed with respect to each dictionary. The distance measures associated with these matches are then fed into a central discriminator to output the final recognition result. We propose a new multi-dictionary matching algorithm for use in the central discriminator that utilizes estimated information of neighborhood fonts. Experiments have been performed on a practical OCR software system whose recognition kernel is based on the proposed algorithm. Fast and accurate recognition has been accomplished both in title recognition, involving all of the 8 fonts, and in main-body recognition, that usually involves only the first 4 most commonly used fonts. JA - Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on VL - 3 M3 - 10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039139 ER -