Calligraphic character boundary coding with rational B-spline based on energy minimization using genetic algorithm

Summary form only given. Traditional salient point based approaches fail in coding calligraphic characters as noisy boundaries make the extraction of the salient points a difficult task. We propose an alternative solution based on genetic algorithm which searches through the space of possible parameter values until a global optimal solution is found. The objective function we employed is a modified version of the total energy function found in the active contour literature.