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Style-Based Ballot Mark Recognition

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Style-Based Ballot Mark Recognition
The push toward voting via hand-marked paper ballots has focused attention on the limitations of current optical scan systems. Discrepancies between human and machine interpretations of ballot markings can lead to a loss of trust in the election process. In this paper, a style-based approach to ballot recognition is proposed in which marks are recognized collectively rather than in isolation. The consistency of a voter's style is leveraged to improve the overall accuracy of the system. We compare style-based recognition to various kinds of singlet classifiers and show that it outperforms them by a substantial margin.
Pingping Xiu, Daniel P. Lopresti, Henry S. Baird,
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Type Journal
Year 2009
Where ICDAR
Authors Pingping Xiu, Daniel P. Lopresti, Henry S. Baird, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney Smith
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