Binary segmentation, a problem of extracting foreground objects from the background, often arises in medical imaging and document processing. Popular existing solutions include Ex...
ABSTRACT: OCR is an error-prone process. It is time-consuming and expensive to manually proofread OCR results. The errors remaining in OCRed texts can cause serious problems in rea...
Many research works on content-based image retrieval have made use of image features. On the other hand, many kinds of image features have also been developed in the research fiel...
Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
We report an automatic feature discovery method that achieves results comparable to a manually chosen, larger feature set on a document image content extraction problem: the locat...