Automatic identification for a Chinese seal image

摘要

Seals instead of signatures for person identification are widely used in many commercial applications in China. The seal identification is usually performed by hardmatching of human visual inspection. To perform the hardmatching automatically, an approach is presented to identify a Chinese sealimage. Four types of the seals of the author's own are used for illustrations and experiments. The paper begins with describing the principle of hardmatching, followed by the introduction of seal identification. Then the proposed approach is described and its experimental results are presented. Experiments provide the identification ability for the proposed approach. Copyright lc,) 1996 Pattern Recognition Society.