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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Extending Page Segmentation Algorithms for Mixed-Layout Document Processing
—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...
Amy Winder, Tim L. Andersen, Elisa H. Barney Smith
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Chromatic / Achromatic Separation in Noisy Document Images
—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...
Asma Ouji, Yann Leydier, Frank Lebourgeois
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Binarizing the Courtesy Amount Field on Color Chinese Bank Check Images
—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...
Dong Liu, Youbin Chen
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Novel Approach for Graphics Recognition Based on Galois Lattice and Bag of Words Representation
—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 ...
Amani Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Shape Descriptor Combining Logarithmic-Scale Histogram of Radon Transform and Phase-Only Correlation Function
—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...
Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Discovering Legible Chinese Typefaces for Reading Digital Documents
More and more fonts have sprung up in recent years in digital publishing industry and reading devices. In this paper, we focus on methods of evaluating digital Chinese fonts and t...
Bing Zhang, Ying Li, Ching Y. Suen, Xuemin Zhang
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving
Abstract—In this paper, we present a novel languageindependent algorithm for extracting text-lines from handwritten document images. Our algorithm is based on the seam carving ap...
Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Three Dimensional Rotation-Free Recognition of Characters
—In this paper, we propose a new method for three dimensional rotation-free recognition of characters in scene. In the proposed method, we employ the Modified Quadratic Discrimi...
Ryo Narita, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, F...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Writer Retrieval - Exploration of a Novel Biometric Scenario Using Perceptual Features Derived from Script Orientation
—We propose a novel scenario called “writer retrieval” consisting in the retrieval from a set of documents all those produced by the same writer. The retrieval is based on a ...
Vlad Atanasiu, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Nicole Vi...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A New Fourier-Moments Based Video Word and Character Extraction Method for Recognition
— This paper presents a new method based on Fourier and moments features to extract words and characters from a video text line in any direction for recognition. Unlike existing ...
Deepak Rajendran, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Bolan...