Paper:
Structure Extraction from Decorated Characters by Graph Spectral Decomposition and Component Selection Criterion
Hideaki Kawano, Akito Shimamura, Hiroshi Maeda, Hideaki Orii,
and Norikazu Ikoma
Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan
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