TY - CHAP AU - Toru Wakahara ED - Peng-Yeng Yin Y1 - 2009-10-01 PY - 2009 T1 - Figure-Ground Discrimination and Distortion-Tolerant Recognition of Color Characters in Scene Images N2 - For more than 40 years, pattern recognition approaches are continuingly improving and have been used in an increasing number of areas with great success. This book discloses recent advances and new ideas in approaches and applications for pattern recognition. The 30 chapters selected in this book cover the major topics in pattern recognition. These chapters propose state-of-the-art approaches and cutting-edge research results. I could not thank enough to the contributions of the authors. This book would not have been possible without their support. BT - Pattern Recognition SP - Ch. 21 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/7535 DO - 10.5772/7535 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -