Skeleton-chain coding for Chinese characters

Long-Wen Chang; Shui-Kung Chuang; Shang-Shung Yu

doi:10.1117/12.131483

1 November 1992 Skeleton-chain coding for Chinese characters

Long-Wen Chang, Shui-Kung Chuang, Shang-Shung Yu

Proceedings Volume 1818, Visual Communications and Image Processing '92; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.131483
Event: Applications in Optical Science and Engineering, 1992, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The compression of Chinese characters is very important for Chinese office automation and desktop publishing. In this thesis, various methods are used to compress 13051 Chinese characters with size 64 X 64 losslessly. A new method, based on coding the skeleton points of each Chinese character is proposed. The skeleton points are found by morphological operations. The method for coding skeleton points is taking advantage of Huffman code, Elias code and chain code. Better compression rate can be achieved than conventional methods.

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Long-Wen Chang, Shui-Kung Chuang, and Shang-Shung Yu "Skeleton-chain coding for Chinese characters", Proc. SPIE 1818, Visual Communications and Image Processing '92, (1 November 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.131483

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