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A Shared Parts Model for Document Image Recognition

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A Shared Parts Model for Document Image Recognition
We address document image classification by visual appearance. An image is represented by a variable-length list of visually salient features. A hierarchical Bayesian network is used to model the joint density of these features. This model promotes generalization from a few samples by sharing component probability distributions among different categories, and by factoring out a common displacement vector shared by all features within an image. The Bayesian network is implemented as a factor graph, and parameter estimation and inference are both done by loopy belief propagation. We explain and illustrate our model on a simple shape classification task. We obtain close to 90% accuracy on classifying journal articles from memos in the UWASH-II dataset, as well as on other classification tasks on a home-grown data set of technical articles.
M. Das Gupta, P. Sarkar
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ICDAR
Authors M. Das Gupta, P. Sarkar
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