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DAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fast and Accurate Skew Estimation Based on Distance Transform
Document skew estimation is an important step in the process of document analysis. In this paper we discuss the properties of the distance transform of binarized documents and der...
Itay Bar Yosef, Nate Hagbi, Klara Kedem, Its'hak D...
NIPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
ICA based on a Smooth Estimation of the Differential Entropy
In this paper we introduce the MeanNN approach for estimation of main information theoretic measures such as differential entropy, mutual information and divergence. As opposed to...
Lev Faivishevsky, Jacob Goldberger
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Segmentation robust to the vignette effect for machine vision systems
The vignette effect (radial fall-off) is commonly encountered in images obtained through certain image acquisition setups and can seriously hinder automatic analysis processes. In...
Dimosthenis Karatzas, Marçal Rusiñol...
IJCNN
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-Stage Optimal Component Analysis
— Optimal component analysis (OCA) uses a stochastic gradient optimization process to find optimal representations for general criteria and shows good performance in object reco...
Yiming Wu, Xiuwen Liu, Washington Mio
SCALESPACE
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Bounds on the Minimizers of (nonconvex) Regularized Least-Squares
This is a theoretical study on the minimizers of cost-functions composed of an ℓ2 data-fidelity term and a possibly nonsmooth or nonconvex regularization term acting on the di...
Mila Nikolova