We describe a method for learning statistical models of images using a second-order hidden Markov mesh model. First, an image can be segmented in a way that best matches its stati...
Daniel DeMenthon, David S. Doermann, Marc Vuilleum...
We propose a method for segmentation of frontal human portraits from arbitrary unknown backgrounds. Semantic information is used to project the face into a normalized reference fr...
David C. Schneider, Benjamin Prestele, Peter Eiser...
—We introduce quantization feature functions to represent continuous or large range discrete data into the symbolic CRF data representation. We show that doing this convertion in...
Text extraction is an important phase in document recognition systems. In order to segment text from a page document it is necessary to detect all the possible manuscript text reg...
Rodolfo P. dos Santos, Gabriela S. Clemente, Ing R...
The research on offline handwritten Arabic character recognition has received more and more attention in recent years, because of the increasing needs of Arabic document digitizati...