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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competitions
This paper describes the robust reading competitions for ICDAR 2003. With the rapid growth in research over the last few years on recognizing text in natural scenes, there is an u...
Simon M. Lucas, Alex Panaretos, Luis Sosa, Anthony...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Fast Lexicon-Based Word Recognition in Noisy Index Card Images
This paper describes a complete system for reading typewritten lexicon words in noisy images - in this case museum index cards. The system is conceptually simple, and straightforw...
Simon M. Lucas, Gregory Patoulas, Andy C. Downton
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Image Segmentation By Learning Approach
This article describes a new segmentation by thresholding approach based on learning. The method consists in learning to threshold correctly submitting both an image and its ideal...
Horacio Andrés Legal-Ayala, Jacques Facon
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Comparison of Some Thresholding Algorithms for Text/Background Segmentation in Difficult Document Images
A number of techniques have previously been proposed for effective thresholding of document images. In this paper two new thresholding techniques are proposed and compared against...
Graham Leedham, Yan Chen, Kalyan Takru, Joie Hadi ...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Improved Nearest Neighbor Based Approach to Accurate Document Skew Estimation
The nearest-neighbor based document skew detection methods do not require the presence of a predominant text area, and are not subject to skew angle limitation. However, the accur...
Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Writer Identification using Innovative Binarised Features of Handwritten Numerals
The objective of this paper is to present a number of features that can be extracted from handwritten digits and used for author verification or identification of a person’s han...
Graham Leedham, Sumit Chachra
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Binary Classification Trees for Multi-class Classification Problems
This paper proposes a binary classification tree aiming at solving multi-class classification problems using binary classifiers. The tree design is achieved in a way that a class ...
Jin-Seon Lee, Il-Seok Oh
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
A Format-Driven Handwritten Word Recognition System
A format-driven word recognition system is proposed for recognition of handwritten words. Unlike most traditional handwritten word recognizers being given a set of target words as...
Xia Liu, Zhixin Shi
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Proper Names Extraction from Fax Images Combining Textual and Image Features
In the frame of a Unified Messaging System, a crucial task of the system is to provide the user with key information on every message received, like keywords reflecting the object...
Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Pascal Vaillant, Fran&cc...