Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and uses Ethiopic script for writing. In this paper, we present writer-independent HMM-based Amharic word recognition for offline hand...
In this paper, we present a holistic system for the recognition of cursive handwriting that utilizes a novel feature extraction method and a neural network. The Hough transform is...
In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive methodology in order to evaluate the performance of noisy historical document recognition techniques. We aim to evaluate not only the...
Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both mono- and cross- lingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically ter...