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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Estimating Degradation Model Parameters from Character Images
This paper discusses the use of character images to determine the parameters of an image degradation model. The acute angles in character images provide information used to find ...
Hok Sum Yam, Elisa H. Barney Smith
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Segmentation and Recognition System for Handwritten Dates on Canadian Bank Cheques
This paper describes a system being developed to recognize date information handwritten on Canadian bank cheques. A segmentation based strategy is adopted in this system. In order...
Qizhi Xu, Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reference Line Extraction from Form Documents with Complicated Backgrounds
Form document analysis is one of the most essential tasks in document analysis and recognition. One of the most fundamental and crucial tasks is the extraction of the reference li...
Dihua Xi, Seong-Whan Lee
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Writer Identification from Gray Level Distribution
When identifying a writer from a handwritten text, most often, either some characteristic patterns or some shape parameters are extracted. They are assumed to be specific of the w...
M. Wirotius, Audrey Seropian, Nicole Vincent
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Towards Automatic Video-based Whiteboard Reading
As whiteboards have become a popular tool in meeting rooms, there has been a growing interest in making use of the whiteboard as a user interface for human computer interaction. T...
Markus Wienecke, Gernot A. Fink, Gerhard Sagerer
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Recognition of Arrows in Line Drawings based on the Aggregation of Geometric Criteria using the Choquet Integral
A new way to detect arrows in line drawings is proposed in this paper. Our approach is based on the definition of the structure of such a symbol. Signatures of angular areas are ...
Laurent Wendling, Salvatore Tabbone
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Directional Wavelet Approach to Remove Document Image Interference
In this paper, we propose a directional wavelet approach to remove images of interfering strokes coming from the back of a historical handwritten document due to seeping of ink du...
Qian Wang, Tao Xia, Chew Lim Tan, Lida Li
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Shape Matching Using GAT Correlation against Nonlinear Distortion and its Application to Handwritten Numeral Recognition
This paper addresses the problem of to what extent linear transformation can alleviate nonlinear distortion. We investigate a technique of global affine transformation (GAT) corre...
Toru Wakahara
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Neural-Evolutionary Approach for Feature and Architecture Selection in Online Handwriting Recognition
An automatic recognition of online handwritten text has been an on-going research problem for nearly four decades. It has been gaining more interest due to the increasing populari...
Brijesh Verma, Moumita Ghosh
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Contour Code Feature Based Segmentation For Handwriting Recognition
The purpose of this paper is to present a novel contour code feature in conjunction with a rule based segmentation for cursive handwriting recognition. A heuristic segmentation al...
Brijesh Verma