ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
We compare in this study two image restoration approaches for the pre-processing of printed documents: namely the Non-local Means filter and a total variation minimization approac...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Word segmentation is a critical stage towards word and character recognition as well as word spotting and mainly concerns two basic aspects, distance computation and gap classific...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a method for recognizing lowresolution characters using a super-resolution technique. Although portable digital cameras can be used for camerabased chara...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper describes the Online Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009. This first competition uses the ADAB-database with Arabic online handwritten words. ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
One of the major challenges in camera document analysis is to deal with the page curl and perspective distortions. In spite of the prevalence of dewarping techniques, no standard ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
The choice of relevant features is very decisive in handwriting recognition rate. Our aim is to present some useful structural and statistical features and see their degree of var...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a new method based on wavelet transform, statistical features and central moments for both graphics and scene text detection in video images. The method ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
The sounds generated by a writing instrument provide a rich and under-utilized source of information for pattern recognition. We examine the feasibility of recognition of handwrit...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper addresses the difficult problem of symbol spotting for graphic documents. We propose an approach where each graphic document is indexed as a text document by using the ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Multi-classifier approach is a widespread strategy used in many difficult classification problems. Traditionally, in a multi-classifier approach, a classification decision based o...