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It is proposed that the performance of thinning algorithms be evaluated with reference to a task which is especially relevant in connection with the use of these algorithms in the application domain of document processing: decomposition of digital lines into meaningful parts. The stability of the decompositions obtained according to simple rules, within given classes of lines, is assumed as a performance index. Experimental results, obtained using the ETL1 database of handprinted characters, are presented, to demonstrate the representativeness of the considered parameter.
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Cordella, L.P., Marcelli, A. (1996). An alternative approach to the performance evaluation of thinning algorithms for document processing applications. In: Kasturi, R., Tombre, K. (eds) Graphics Recognition Methods and Applications. GREC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1072. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61226-2_2
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