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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Super-Resolved Binarization of Text Based on the FAIR Algorithm
—In this paper, we present a novel approach for super-resolved binarization of document images acquired by low quality devices. The algorithm tries to compute the super resolutio...
Thibault Lelore, Frédéric Bouchara
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Segmentation and Normalisation in Grapheme Codebooks
Abstract—The grapheme codebook is a high-performing technique for offline writer identification. This paper considers whether the de facto standards for initial grapheme extrac...
Tara Gilliam, Richard C. Wilson, John A. Clark
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Graph Clustering-Based Ensemble Method for Handwritten Text Line Segmentation
—Handwritten text line segmentation on real-world data presents significant challenges that cannot be overcome by any single technique. Given the diversity of approaches and the...
Vasant Manohar, Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni, Hua...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Table Detection Method for Multipage PDF Documents via Visual Seperators and Tabular Structures
—Table detection is always an important task of document analysis and recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective table detection method via visual separators an...
Jing Fang, Liangcai Gao, Kun Bai, Ruiheng Qiu, Xin...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Identification of Indic Scripts on Torn-Documents
—Questioned Document Examination processes often encompass analysis of torn documents. To aid a forensic expert, automatic classification of content type in torn documents might ...
Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke, Umapada Pal
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Co-training for Handwritten Word Recognition
—To cope with the tremendous variations of writing styles encountered between different individuals, unconstrained automatic handwriting recognition systems need to be trained on...
Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Horst Bunke, Ali...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Character Enhancement for Historical Newspapers Printed Using Hot Metal Typesetting
—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...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Novel Italic Detection and Rectification Method for Chinese Advertising Images
—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...
Jie Liu, Heping Li, Shuwu Zhang, Wei Liang
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Greek Polytonic OCR Based on Efficient Character Class Number Reduction
—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...
Basilios Gatos, Georgios Louloudis, Nikolaos Stama...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Word Retrieval in Historical Document Using Character-Primitives
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...
Partha Pratim Roy, Jean-Yves Ramel, Nicolas Ragot