Devanagari script is a two dimensional composition of symbols. It is highly cumbersome to treat each composite character as a separate atomic symbol because such combinations are very large in number. This paper presents a two pass algorithm for the segmentation and decomposition of Devanagari composite characters/symbols into their constituent symbols. The proposed algorithm extensively uses s...

Emergent narrative is an approach to interactive storytelling in which stories result from local interactions of autonomous characters. We describe a technique for emergent narrative that enables the characters to fill in the story world during the simulation when this is useful for the developing story.

Recognition of Chinese characters has been an area of major for many years, and a large number of research papers and reports have already been published in this area. There are several major problems with Chinese character recognition: Chinese characters are distinct and ideographic, the character size is very large and a lot of structurally similar characters exist in the character set. Thus,...

This paper presents seven experiments to determine the optimal size of a box for the input of handwriting characters on PDAs. The experiments involve consideration of boxes for different kinds of characters, different sizes and shapes (square and rectangular), the learning effect, and the age differences of users. The results are assessed in terms of high performance factors (e.g., high charact...

Recent forms of virtual reality (VR) have changed the way people interact with moving images in entertainment and games industry, as well content is created. Technological advances VR given an opportunity to create simulated environments that users can immerse themselves in, sense almost a real experience by combining film techniques interactive media approache...

Pre-classification can effectively improve the performance of handwritten Chinese character recognition. This paper presents a method that uses four corner feature for pre-classification of handwritten Chinese characters. Considering writing variations, we define a set of basic stroke structures and match them with the structures in four corner regions of character image. The matching result wi...

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) plays an important role in Intelligent Transport System. Number plate extraction is the major key step before the plate recognition. This paper presents a method for extraction and recognition of the vehicle number plate from the image automatically. The camera is used to capture the image automatically. The segmentation is used to segment the character...

There is a significant need to recognise the text in images on web pages, both for effective indexing and for presentation by non-visual means (e.g., audio). This paper presents and compares two novel methods for the segmentation of characters for subsequent extraction and recognition. The novelty of both approaches is the combination of (different in each case) topological features of characte...