—The italic detection and slant rectification is a key step of optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, a novel method is proposed to detect and rectify italic charact...
The presentation of search results on the web has been dominated by the textual form of document representation. On the other hand, the document's visual aspects such as the ...
Abstract. We consider documents as words and trees on some alphabet and study how to compare them with some regular schemas on an alphabet . Given an input document I, we decide ...
Objects identification in images is generally hard unless the objects are simple geometric shapes such as circles, rectangles or have very particular properties. Even simple geome...
This paper studies cross-language cross-medium information retrieval. We introduce several approaches to unify the languages and media of queries and documents. We experiment on c...