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DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Extraction and Analysis of Document Examiner Features from Vector Skeletons of Grapheme 'th'
Abstract. This paper presents a study of 25 structural features extracted from samples of grapheme `th' that correspond to features commonly used by forensic document examiner...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Graham Leedham
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
XCDF: A Canonical and Structured Document Format
Accessing the structured content of PDF document is a difficult task, requiring pre-processing and reverse engineering techniques. In this paper, we first present different methods...
Jean-Luc Bloechle, Maurizio Rigamonti, Karim Hadja...
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Segmentation of On-Line Handwritten Japanese Text Using SVM for Improving Text Recognition
Abstract. This paper describes a method of producing segmentation point candidates for on-line handwritten Japanese text by a support vector machine (SVM) to improve text recogniti...
Bilan Zhu, Junko Tokuno, Masaki Nakagawa
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Bangla/English Script Identification Based on Analysis of Connected Component Profiles
Script identification is required for a multilingual OCR system. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient technique for Bangla/English script identification with application...
Lijun Zhou, Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Finding the Best-Fit Bounding-Boxes
The bounding-box of a geometric shape in 2D is the rectangle with the smallest area in a given orientation (usually upright) that complete contains the shape. The best-fit bounding...
Bo Yuan, Leong Kwoh, Chew Lim Tan
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Semi-automatic Ground Truth Generation for Chart Image Recognition
While research on scientific chart recognition is being carried out, there is no suitable standard that can be used to evaluate the overall performance of the chart recognition res...
Li Yang, Weihua Huang, Chew Lim Tan
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Offline Handwritten Arabic Character Segmentation with Probabilistic Model
The research on offline handwritten Arabic character recognition has received more and more attention in recent years, because of the increasing needs of Arabic document digitizati...
Pingping Xiu, Liangrui Peng, Xiaoqing Ding, Hua Wa...
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Structural Analysis of Mathematical Formulae with Verification Based on Formula Description Grammar
In this paper, a reliable and efficient structural analysis method for mathematical formulae is proposed for practical mathematical OCR. The proposed method consists of three steps...
Seiichi Toyota, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Suzuki
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Groove Extraction of Phonographic Records
Historical sound documents are of high importance for our cultural heritage. The sound of phonographic records is usually extracted by a stylus following the groove, but many old r...
Sylvain Stotzer, Ottar Johnsen, Frédé...
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 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,...