Chinese character recognition and literacy development via a techno-pedagogical pivot

Author(s):  
Justin Olmanson ◽  
Xianquan Liu ◽  
Christopher C. Heselton ◽  
Asha Srivastava ◽  
Nannan Wang
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-279
Author(s):  
Rui Guo

The intelligent recognition tool for bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties—the “Shang Zhou Bronze Inscriptions Intelligent Mirror”—was successfully invented in Shanghai. This mirror, based on the computer technology of artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition and image retrieval, succeeds in automagical recognition of bronze inscriptions, both single letters and full texts. This research leads the trend of the AI recognition of Ancient Chinese characters and accumulates valuable experience for the development of inter-disciplinary research on Chinese character recognition. This essay emphasizes the importance of the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasty database in the AI recognition of bronze inscriptions, introduces the functional components of this tool, and shares the whole research process in order to offer experience for the related research on AI recognition of other types of Ancient Chinese characters as well as ideographs in the world scope. “Shang Zhou Bronze Inscriptions Intelligent Mirror” as a tool for bronze inscription recognition also has room for improvement and support, and guidance from experts in similar areas is greatly welcomed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1452-1456
Author(s):  
Chao Zheng ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Xing Yang ◽  
Chao Chao Huang ◽  
Xiao Di Wu

Low-resolution Chinese character recognition of license plate is always a difficult problem. For solving it, we must think about the distinctiveness of character feature and the counting speed of method simultaneously. In this paper, we proposed a simple and effective feature extraction algorithm. First, extract the statistical feature of Chinese character based on decomposing stroke with wavelet transform. Second, apply Elastic Mesh Algorithm into extracting wavelet coefficient of decomposing stroke to get the structure information of Chinese character. The experimental results show the method is robust against low quality Chinese characters, such as skew, fuzzy, glue, distorted character, and easy to be used in actual projects with simple advantage.


Author(s):  
Ju-Wei Chen ◽  
Suh-Yin Lee

Chinese characters are constructed by basic strokes based on structural rules. In handwritten characters, the shapes of the strokes may vary to some extent, but the spatial relations and geometric configurations of the strokes are usually maintained. Therefore these spatial relations and configurations could be regarded as invariant features and could be used in the recognition of handwritten Chinese characters. In this paper, we investigate the structural knowledge in Chinese characters and propose the stroke spatial relationship representation (SSRR) to describe Chinese characters. An On-Line Chinese Character Recognition (OLCCR) method using the SSRR is also presented. With SSRR, each character is processed and is represented by an attribute graph. The process of character recognition is thereby transformed into a graph matching problem. After careful analysis, the basic spatial relationship between strokes can be characterized into five classes. A bitwise representation is adopted in the design of the data structure to reduce storage requirements and to speed up character matching. The strategy of hierarchical search in the preclassification improves the recognition speed. Basically, the attribute graph model is a generalized character representation that provides a useful and convenient representation for newly added characters in an OLCCR system with automatic learning capability. The significance of the structural approach of character recognition using spatial relationships is analyzed and is proved by experiments. Realistic testing is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.


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