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DAS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Document analysis issues in reading optical scan ballots
Optical scan voting is considered by many to be the most trustworthy option for conducting elections because it provides an independently verifiable record of each voter’s inte...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney S...
DAS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Binarization of historical document images using the local maximum and minimum
This paper presents a new document image binarization technique that segments the text from badly degraded historical document images. The proposed technique makes use of the imag...
Bolan Su, Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan
DAS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting and recognizing tables in spreadsheets
Detecting tables in a spreadsheet is the first step needed to make spreadsheet documents accessible to individuals with visual disabilities. Techniques to enable aural presentati...
Iyad Abu Doush, Enrico Pontelli
DAS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A system to detect rooms in architectural floor plan images
In this article, a system to detect the rooms in architectural floor plan images is described. We first present a primitive extraction algorithm for line detection. It is based ...
Sébastien Macé, Hervé Locteau...
DAS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Associating figures with descriptions for patent documents
Patent document images maintained by the U.S. patent database have a specific format, in which figures and text descriptions are separated into different sections. This makes it...
Linlin Li, Chew Lim Tan
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On-line Signature Verification Using Local Shape Analysis
This paper presents a novel approach to the on-line signature verification using local shape Analysis. First, segment the input signature into several segments using HMM (Hidden M...
Mingfu Zou, Jianjun Tong, Changping Liu, Zhenglian...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Parsing N-Best Lists of Handwritten Sentences
This paper investigates the application of a probabilistic parser for natural language on the list of the Nbest sentences produced by an off-line recognition system for cursive h...
Matthias Zimmermann, Jean-Cédric Chappelier...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid On/Off Line Handwritten Signature Verification System
This paper proposes a new hybrid handwritten signature verification system where the on-line reference data acquired through a digitizing tablet serves as the basis for the segmen...
Alessandro Zimmer, Luan Ling Lee
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Postal Envelope Segmentation by 2-D Histogram Clustering through Watershed Transform
In this paper we present a new postal envelope segmentation method based on 2-D histogram clustering and watershed transform. Segmentation task consists in detecting the modes ass...
Eduardo Akira Yonekura, Jacques Facon
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Skewscope: The Textual Document Skew Detector
Skewscope is a software module designed to detect and analyze skew information of textual document images. Its skew detection algorithm, which is the major topic of this paper, di...
Bo Yuan, Chew Lim Tan