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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Feature Extraction by Hierarchical Overlapped Elastic Meshing for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
Meshing is a popular technology for feature extraction in handwritten Chinese character recognition. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical overlapped elastic meshing (HOEM), wh...
Tianlei Wu, Shaoping Ma
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Thresholding of Gray-level Using Multi-stage Approach
A multi-stage approach is presented for thresholding document images, along with its application. The proposed method is based on two stages. Global thresholding is used in first ...
Sue Wu, Adnan Amin
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Correcting the Document Layout: A Machine Learning Approach
In this paper, a machine learning approach to support the user during the correction of the layout analysis is proposed. Layout analysis is the process of extracting a hierarchica...
Donato Malerba, Floriana Esposito, Oronzo Altamura...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
String Extraction From Color Airline Coupon Image Using Statistical Approach
A novel technique is presented in this paper to extract strings in color images of both Business Settlement Plan (BSP) and non-BSP airline coupon. The essential concept is to remo...
Yi Li, Zhiyan Wang, Haizan Zeng
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Engineering Drawings Recognition Using a Case-based Approach
In this paper, we propose a framework for engineering drawings recognition using a case-based approach. The key idea of our scheme is that, interactively, the user provides an exa...
Yan Luo, Liu Wenyin
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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