HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION BASED ON CHINESE CHARACTER PROTOTYPE

This paper discusses three kinds of Chinese character representations in a computer and two traditional analytical methods of Chinese character structure. By applying fundamental principles of topology and geometry to Chinese character structure and their constrained relations, four catalogues which contain basic relations to Chinese character structures are defined and Chinese character prototypes are constructed. Finally, an experiment is given to show how to use the prototypes in recognizing handwritten Chinese characters.