There is a significant need to recognise the text in images on web pages, both for effective indexing and for presentation by non-visual means (e.g., audio). This paper presents a...
On sparse images, contiguous runs of identical symbols often occur in the same coding context. This paper proposes a model for efficiently encoding such runs in a twodimensional s...
Wavelet-based image coders like the JPEG2000 standard are the state of the art in image compression. Unlike traditional image coders, however, their performance depends to a large...
Watermarks are the most important tool for dating old, not explicitly dated paper documents. Hence, catalogues and databases of watermarks play an eminent role for the work of med...
Emanuel Wenger, Victor N. Karnaukhov, Alois Haidin...
The word error rate of any optical character recognition system (OCR) is usually substantially below its component or character error rate. This is especially true of Indic langua...
Venkat Rasagna, Anand Kumar 0002, C. V. Jawahar, R...