Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A new framework for contour tracing using Euclidean distance mapping Subject The topic of the resource Contour tracing; Euclidean distance mapping; Handwritten character recognition; Medical axis transform Description An account of the resource In this paper, a new fast, efficient and accurate contour extraction method, using eight sequential Euclidean distance map and connectivity criteria based on maximal disk, is proposed. The connectivity criterion is based on a set of point pairs along the image boundary pixels. The proposed algorithm generates a contour of an image with less number of iterations compared to many of the existing methods. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested with a database of handwritten character images. In comparison to two standard contour tracing algorithms (the Moore method and the Canny edge detection method), the proposed algorithm found to give good quality contour images and require less computing time. Further, features extracted from contours of handwritten character images, generated using the proposed algorithm, resulted in better recognition accuracy. Copyright 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sobhana Mari S.; Raju G. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, Vol-11, No. 5, pp. 542-553. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Inderscience Publishers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCVR.2021.117584" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCVR.2021.117584</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115278156&amp;doi=10.1504%2FIJCVR.2021.117584&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=29a0ff319e94fa619620dccd6d0edae1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115278156&amp;doi=10.1504%2fIJCVR.2021.117584&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=29a0ff319e94fa619620dccd6d0edae1</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 17529131 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Sobhana Mari S., Government Higher Secondary School, Pandi, Kasaragod, Kerala, 671 543, India; Raju G., Department of Data Science, Christ (Deemed to be University), Lavasa Campus, Maharashtra, Pune, 412 112, India