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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
A Shape Descriptor Combining Logarithmic-Scale Histogram of Radon Transform and Phase-Only Correlation Function
—A shape descriptor combining the histogram of the Radon transform, the logarithmic-scale histogram, and the phase-only correlation function is proposed. Applying a logarithmic-s...
Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Discovering Legible Chinese Typefaces for Reading Digital Documents
More and more fonts have sprung up in recent years in digital publishing industry and reading devices. In this paper, we focus on methods of evaluating digital Chinese fonts and t...
Bing Zhang, Ying Li, Ching Y. Suen, Xuemin Zhang
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 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
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Three Dimensional Rotation-Free Recognition of Characters
—In this paper, we propose a new method for three dimensional rotation-free recognition of characters in scene. In the proposed method, we employ the Modified Quadratic Discrimi...
Ryo Narita, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, F...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Writer Retrieval - Exploration of a Novel Biometric Scenario Using Perceptual Features Derived from Script Orientation
—We propose a novel scenario called “writer retrieval” consisting in the retrieval from a set of documents all those produced by the same writer. The retrieval is based on a ...
Vlad Atanasiu, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Nicole Vi...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
A New Fourier-Moments Based Video Word and Character Extraction Method for Recognition
— This paper presents a new method based on Fourier and moments features to extract words and characters from a video text line in any direction for recognition. Unlike existing ...
Deepak Rajendran, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Bolan...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Localization of Digit Strings in Farsi/Arabic Document Images Using Structural Features and Syntactical Analysis
—This paper presents a new method for localization of digit strings with a specific syntax in Farsi/ Arabic document images. First, some features are extracted from all connected...
Ali Abedi, Karim Faez
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
A Method of Evaluating Table Segmentation Results Based on a Table Image Ground Truther
—We propose a novel method to evaluate table segmentation results based on a table image ground truther. In the ground-truthing process, we first extract connected components fr...
Yanhui Liang, Yizhou Wang, Eric Saund
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning
—Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a signicant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images a...
Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev S...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Character n-Gram Spotting in Document Images
—In this paper, we present a novel approach to search and retrieve from document image collections, without explicit recognition. Existing recognition-free approaches such as wor...
M. Sudha Praveen, K. Pramod Sankar, C. V. Jawahar