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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Figure-ground discrimination and distortion-tolerant recognition of color characters in scene images
This paper proposes a new technique of figureground discrimination of color characters in scene images following two steps. The first step is temporary binarization by selecting o...
Toru Wakahara
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 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
CHI
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An Efficient Text Input Method for Pen-Based Computers
Pen-based computing has not yet taken off, partly because of the lack of fast and easy text input methods. The situation is even worse for people using East Asian languages, where...
Toshiyuki Masui
KDD
2004
ACM
163views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Exploiting dictionaries in named entity extraction: combining semi-Markov extraction processes and data integration methods
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...
William W. Cohen, Sunita Sarawagi
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Novel Feature Extraction and Classification Methodology for the Recognition of Historical Documents
In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line character recognition that mainly focuses on handling the difficult cases of historical fonts and styles. The proposed methodo...
Georgios Vamvakas, Basilios Gatos, Stavros J. Pera...