Raster map images (e.g., USGS) provide much information in digital form; however, the color assignments and pixel labels leave many serious ambiguities. A color histogram classiï¬...
A post-processor is an integral part of any OCR system. This paper proposes a method for detection and correction of errors in recognition results of handwritten and machine print...
This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of layout analysis methods in realistic circumstances. It describes the Page Segmentation competition (modus operandi, data...
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Stefan Pletschacher, Dav...
We propose a new algorithm for segmentation of off-line handwritten Arabic words. The algorithm segments the connected letters to smaller segments each of which contains no more t...
In this paper, we present a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into individual characters. When two or more characters touch, they generate...
This paper introduces the Book Structure Extraction competition run at ICDAR 2009. The goal of the competition is to evaluate and compare automatic techniques for deriving structu...
Antoine Doucet, Gabriella Kazai, Bodin Dresevic, A...
We present a spatially variant framework for correcting uneven illumination and color cast, problems commonly associated with digitized books. The core of our method is a color im...