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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A Variational Bayes Method for Handwritten Text Line Segmentation
Text line segmentation in unconstrained handwritten documents remains a challenge because handwritten text lines are multi-skewed and not obviously separated. This paper presents ...
Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu
AND
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A comprehensive evaluation methodology for noisy historical document recognition techniques
In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive methodology in order to evaluate the performance of noisy historical document recognition techniques. We aim to evaluate not only the...
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios Louloudis, Basili...
PR
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Text line detection in handwritten documents
In this paper, we present a new text line detection method for unconstrained handwritten documents. The proposed technique is based on a strategy that consists of three distinct s...
Georgios Louloudis, Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratik...
TCSV
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Localizing and segmenting text in images and videos
Many images--especially those used for page design on web pages--as well as videos contain visible text. If these text occurrences could be detected, segmented, and recognized auto...
Rainer Lienhart, Axel Wernicke
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Text Line Segmentation of Historical Documents: a Survey
There is a huge amount of historical documents in libraries and in various National Archives that have not been exploited electronically. Although automatic reading of complete pa...
Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Abderrazak Zahour, Bruno...
DAS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Robust System to Detect and Localize Texts in Natural Scene Images
In this paper, we present a robust system to accurately detect and localize texts in natural scene images. For text detection, a region-based method utilizing multiple features an...
Yi-Feng Pan, Xinwen Hou, Cheng-Lin Liu
DAS
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Handwritten Arabic text line segmentation using affinity propagation
In this paper, we present a novel graph-based method for extracting handwritten text lines in monochromatic Arabic document images. Our approach consists of two steps Coarse text ...
Jayant Kumar, Wael Abd-Almageed, Le Kang, David S....
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Approach to Extracting the Target Text Line from a Document Image Captured by a Pen Scanner
In this paper, we present a new approach to extracting the target text line from a document image captured by a pen scanner. Given the binary image, a set of possible text lines a...
Zhen-Long Bai, Qiang Huo
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Grouping Text Lines in Freeform Handwritten Notes
Handwritten text lines are prominent structures in freeform digital ink notes and their reliable detection is the foundation to a natural and intelligent interface for note editin...
Ming Ye, Herry Sutanto, Sashi Raghupathy, Chengyan...
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Handwriting Segmentation Contest
This paper presents the results of the Handwriting Segmentation Contest that was organized in the context of ICDAR2007. The aim of this contest was to use well established evaluat...
Basilios Gatos, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Nikolaos...