In Africa, there are a number of languages with their own indigenous scripts. This paper presents an OCR for Amharic scripts. Amharic is the official and working language of Ethio...
Relationships that link static documents discussed during meetings to the corresponding speech transcripts can be of various kinds. The most important ones, thematic links, quotat...
In this article we present a novel fully automatic character segmentation for camera-based images. This is a top-down approach inspired by the human visual system: the high level ...
This paper introduces a novel high speed convolutional character recognition system. Convolutional mode operation means that no prior localization or segmentation of characters is...
In this article, we focus on the problem of caption detection in video sequences. Contrary to most of existing approaches based on a single detector followed by an ad hoc and cost...
This paper describes the results of the ICDAR 2005 competition for locating text in camera captured scenes. For this we used the same data as the ICDAR 2003 competition, which has...
On-line handwriting recognition has continued to persist as a popular research field while pen computing applications are widely used in recent years. This paper proposes a novel ...
A spanned cell in a table is a single, complete unit that physically occupies multiple columns and/or multiple rows. Spanned cells are common in tables, and they are a significan...
In this paper we present IAM-OnDB - a new large online handwritten sentences database. It is publicly available and consists of text acquired via an electronic interface from a wh...