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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
HMM-Based Handwritten Amharic Word Recognition with Feature Concatenation
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and uses Ethiopic script for writing. In this paper, we present writer-independent HMM-based Amharic word recognition for offline hand...
Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigün
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 5 months ago
Character Enhancement for Historical Newspapers Printed Using Hot Metal Typesetting
—We propose a new method for an effective removal of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a widely...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Segmentation Contest
The Handwriting Segmentation Contest was organized in the context of ICDAR2009 conference in order to record recent advances in off-line handwriting segmentation. This paper descr...
Basilios Gatos, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios L...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 5 months ago
Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving
Abstract—In this paper, we present a novel languageindependent algorithm for extracting text-lines from handwritten document images. Our algorithm is based on the seam carving ap...
Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Scoring of Handwritten Essays Based on Latent Semantic Analysis
Handwritten essays are widely used in educational assessments, particularly in classroom instruction. This paper concerns the design of an automated system for performing the task ...
Sargur N. Srihari, Jim Collins, Rohini K. Srihari,...