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ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Word Separation of Unconstrained Handwritten Text Lines in PCR Forms
An approach for segmenting handwritten text in a Pre-Hospital Care Report (PCR) is presented. Segmentation of lines and words in a PCR is extremely challenging due to the nature o...
Ifeoma Nwogu, Gyeonghwan Kim
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Old Greek Handwritten OCR System
Recognition of handwritten manuscripts is essential for efficient content exploitation of the valuable Old Greek historical collections. In this paper, we focus on the problem of ...
Kostas Ntzios, Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis,...
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Synthetic Database to Assess Segmentation Algorithms
In this paper we describe a synthetic database composed of 273,452 handwritten touching digits pairs to assess segmentation algorithms. It contains several different kinds of touc...
Luiz S. Oliveira, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Rober...
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Multi-Path Static Scripts Using Hidden Markov Models
Static handwritten scripts are available only as images on documents and by definition do not contain dynamic information. This study is about extracting dynamic information from...
Emli-Mari Nel, Johan A. du Preez, Ben M. Herbst
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval as Voting for Partial Signatures of Projective Invariants
We propose a method of document image retrieval using digital cameras. The proposed method takes as input a part or the whole of a document acquired as a query by a digital camera...
Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On-line Writer Adaptation for Handwriting Recognition using Fuzzy Inference Systems
We present an automatic on-line adaptation mechanism to the writer’s handwriting style for the recognition of isolated handwritten characters. The classifier is based on a Fuzz...
Harold Mouchère, Éric Anquetil, Nico...
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Mosaicing-by-recognition: a technique for video-based text recognition
In this paper, a mosaicing-by-recognition technique is proposed where video mosaicing and text recognition are simultaneously and collaboratively optimized in a one-step manner. S...
Hiromitsu Miyazaki, Seiichi Uchida, Hiroaki Sakoe
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Online Character Recognition Based on Elastic Matching and Quadratic Discrimination
We try to link elastic matching with a statistical discrimination framework to overcome the overfitting problem which often degrades the performance of elastic matchingbased onli...
Hiroto Mitoma, Seiichi Uchida, Hiroaki Sakoe
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Corpus for Comparative Evaluation of OCR Software and Postcorrection Techniques
We describe a new corpus collected for comparative evaluation of OCR-software and postcorrection techniques. The corpus is freely available for academic groups and use. The major ...
Stoyan Mihov, Klaus U. Schulz, Christoph Ringlstet...
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Optimized XY-Cut for Determining a Page Reading Order
In this paper, we propose a fast method for determining the human reading order of the layout elements of a document page. The proposal includes a computationally tractable optimi...
Jean-Luc Meunier