My approach to symbol recognition of Chinese numerals uses techniques well
established in digital image processing, including black/white conversion,
digital binary morphology, pixel histograms for line counting, Zhang-Suen
thinning for skeletonization, and other simple techniques such as median
filtering. These techniques are combined to form a feature extraction
algorithm. Once features are identified simple table lookups are
preformed for number recognition. The table is constructed from known
features in each of the non-complex and common Chinese numerals.
This project also implements basic image processing algorithms, including point and neighborhood operations.