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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Localization of Digit Strings in Farsi/Arabic Document Images Using Structural Features and Syntactical Analysis
—This paper presents a new method for localization of digit strings with a specific syntax in Farsi/ Arabic document images. First, some features are extracted from all connected...
Ali Abedi, Karim Faez
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Method of Evaluating Table Segmentation Results Based on a Table Image Ground Truther
—We propose a novel method to evaluate table segmentation results based on a table image ground truther. In the ground-truthing process, we first extract connected components fr...
Yanhui Liang, Yizhou Wang, Eric Saund
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning
—Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a signicant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images a...
Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev S...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Character n-Gram Spotting in Document Images
—In this paper, we present a novel approach to search and retrieve from document image collections, without explicit recognition. Existing recognition-free approaches such as wor...
M. Sudha Praveen, K. Pramod Sankar, C. V. Jawahar
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Chinese Keyword Spotting Using Knowledge-Based Clustering
—Content-based document image retrieval is a new and promising research area. Without OCR, document indexing directly based on image content is more general and convenient. Howev...
Yong Xia, Kuanquan Wang, Mingwei Li
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
OCR-Driven Writer Identification and Adaptation in an HMM Handwriting Recognition System
—We present an OCR-driven writer identification algorithm in this paper. Our algorithm learns writer-specific characteristics more precisely from explicit character alignment usi...
Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Tuning between Exponential Functions and Zones for Membership Functions Selection in Voronoi-Based Zoning for Handwritten Charac
— In Handwritten Character Recognition, zoning is rigtly considered as one of the most effective feature extraction techniques. In the past, many zoning methods have been propose...
Sebastiano Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Script-Free Text Line Segmentation Using Interline Space Model for Printed Document Images
—This paper proposes a model-based text line segmentation algorithm for machine-printed document images. The model is based on geometric configuration which uses the interline sp...
Minwoo Kim, Il-Seok Oh
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On-line Handwritten Japanese Characters Recognition Using a MRF Model with Parameter Optimization by CRF
— This paper describes a Markov random field (MRF) model with weighting parameters optimized by conditional random field (CRF) for on-line recognition of handwritten Japanese cha...
Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Browsing Heterogeneous Document Collections by a Segmentation-Free Word Spotting Method
—In this paper, we present a segmentation-free word spotting method that is able to deal with heterogeneous document image collections. We propose a patch-based framework where p...
Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Rica...