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ACSC
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Visually Sealed and Digitally Signed Documents
One of the primary flaws with current digital signature technology is that a digital signature does not "feel" or resemble a traditional seal or personal signature to th...
Vicky Liu, William J. Caelli, Ernest Foo, Selwyn R...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Boosted decision trees for word recognition in handwritten document retrieval
Recognition and retrieval of historical handwritten material is an unsolved problem. We propose a novel approach to recognizing and retrieving handwritten manuscripts, based upon ...
Nicholas R. Howe, Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha
DAS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Aligning Transcripts to Automatically Segmented Handwritten Manuscripts
Abstract. Training and evaluation of techniques for handwriting recognition and retrieval is a challenge given that it is difficult to create large ground-truthed datasets. This is...
Jamie L. Rothfeder, R. Manmatha, Toni M. Rath
CAIP
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 days ago
A Novel Approach for Word Spotting Using Merge-Split Edit Distance
Edit distance matching has been used in literature for word spotting with characters taken as primitives. The recognition rate however, is limited by the segmentation inconsistenci...
Khurram Khurshid, Claudie Faure, Nicole Vincent
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving
Abstract—In this paper, we present a novel languageindependent algorithm for extracting text-lines from handwritten document images. Our algorithm is based on the seam carving ap...
Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana