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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
PixLabeler: User Interface for Pixel-Level Labeling of Elements in Document Images
We present a user interface design for labeling elements in document images at a pixel level. Labels are represented by overlay color, which might map to such terms as "handw...
Eric Saund, Jing Lin, Prateek Sarkar
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Learning on the Fly: Font-Free Approaches to Difficult OCR Problems
Despite ubiquitous claims that optical character recognition (OCR) is a "solved problem," many categories of documents continue to break modern OCR software such as docu...
Andrew Kae, Erik G. Learned-Miller
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Form Field Frame Boundary Removal for Form Processing System in Gurmukhi Script
Machine recognition of hand-filled forms is a challenging task. Form processing involves many activities including form field location, field frame boundary removal and data image...
Dharam Veer Sharma, Gurpreet Singh Lehal
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Evaluation of Different Strategies to Optimize an HMM-Based Character Recognition System
Different strategies for combination of complementary features in an HMM-based method for handwritten character recognition are evaluated. In addition, a noise reduction method is...
Murilo Santos, Albert Hung-Ren Ko, Luiz S. Oliveir...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Stochastic Model of Stroke Order Variation
A stochastic model of stroke order variation is proposed and applied to the stroke-order free on-line Kanji character recognition. The proposed model is a hidden Markov model (HMM...
Yoshinori Katayama, Seiichi Uchida, Hiroaki Sakoe
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Combining Alignment Results for Historical Handwritten Document Analysis
In this paper we propose a new strategy for combining the outputs of several alignment systems. Based on the word boundaries retrieved from a number of individual alignment system...
Emanuel Indermühle, Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bun...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Recognition of Handwritten Numerical Fields in a Large Single-Writer Historical Collection
This paper presents a segmentation-based handwriting recognizer and the performance that it achieves on the numerical fields extracted from a large single-writer historical collec...
Marius Bulacu, Axel Brink, Tijn van der Zant, Lamb...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Shape Descriptor Based Document Image Indexing and Symbol Recognition
In this paper we present a novel shape descriptor based on shape context, which in combination with hierarchical distance based hashing is used for word and graphical pattern base...
Ehtesham Hassan, Santanu Chaudhury, M. Gopal
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Lexicon-Based Word Recognition Using Support Vector Machine and Hidden Markov Model
Hybrid of Neural Network (NN) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been popular in word recognition, taking advantage of NN discriminative property and HMM representational capabilit...
Abdul Rahim Ahmad, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Marzuki...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Bayesian Similarity Model Estimation for Approximate Recognized Text Search
Approximate text search is a basic technique to handle recognized text that contains recognition errors. This paper proposes an approximate string search for recognized text using...
Atsuhiro Takasu