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ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
DjVu: Analyzing and Compressing Scanned Documents for Internet Distribution
DjVu is an image compression technique specifically geared towards the compression of scanned documents in color at high resolution. Typical magazine pages in color scanned at 300...
Patrick Haffner, Léon Bottou, Paul G. Howar...
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Font Recognition based on Global Texture Analysis
Yong Zhu, Tieniu Tan, Yunhong Wang
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Multi-experts for Touching Digit String Recognition
84.6% of touching digit strings have only two digits touching, 12.3% have three digits touching, and 3.1% have more than three digits touching. We present a multiexperts approach ...
Xian Wang, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Text/Graphics Separation using Agent-based Pyramid Operations
This paper describes a document image analysis system using multiple agents working on a pyramid structure to separate text from graphics in the image. Text strings appear as diff...
Chew Lim Tan, Bo Yuan, Weihua Huang, Qian Wang, Zh...
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Two-state Markov Chain Model of Degraded Document Images
We propose a two-state Markov chain model of degraded document images. The model generates random and burst noise to simulate isolated pixel reversal as well as blurring of a larg...
Shamik Sural, P. K. Das
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Study of Representations for Pen based Handwriting Recognition of Tamil Characters
In this paper we study the important issue of choosing representations that are suitable for recognizing pen based handwriting of characters in Tamil, a language of India. Four di...
C. S. Sundaresan, S. Sathiya Keerthi
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Character and Document Research in the Open Mind Initiative
We describe the Open Mind Initiative, a framework for large-scale collaborative efforts in building components of "intelligent" systems that address common-sense reasoni...
David G. Stork
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Skew Detection via Principal Components Analysis
Skew detection via principal components is proposed as an e ective methodforimageswhich contain other parts than text. It is shown that the negative of the image leads to much mor...
Tal Steinherz, Nathan Intrator, Ehud Rivlin
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Information Theoretic Analysis of Postal Address Fields for Automatic Address Interpretation
This paper concerns a study of information content in postal address fields for automatic address interpretation. Information provided by a combination of address components and i...
Sargur N. Srihari, Wen-jann Yang, Venu Govindaraju