ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—To cope with the tremendous variations of writing styles encountered between different individuals, unconstrained automatic handwriting recognition systems need to be trained on...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—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...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—The italic detection and slant rectification is a key step of optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, a novel method is proposed to detect and rectify italic charact...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Recognition of document images having Greek polytonic (multi accent) characters is a challenging task due the large number of existing character classes (more than 270). In this...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—The goal of this work is to add the capability to segment documents containing text, graphics, and pictures in the open source OCR engine OCRopus. To achieve this goal, OCRopus...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—This paper presents a new method to split an image into chromatic and achromatic zones. The proposed algorithm is dedicated to document images. It is robust to the color noise i...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—A novel binarization method for courtesy amount recognition of color Chinese checks is proposed in this paper. It includes two steps: background removal and seal removal. In the...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—This paper presents a new approach for graphical symbols recognition by combining a concept lattice with a bag of words representation. Visual words define the properties of a ...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—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...