Word segmentation is a critical stage towards word and character recognition as well as word spotting and mainly concerns two basic aspects, distance computation and gap classific...
In this paper, we propose a method for recognizing lowresolution characters using a super-resolution technique. Although portable digital cameras can be used for camerabased chara...
This paper describes the Online Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009. This first competition uses the ADAB-database with Arabic online handwritten words. ...
One of the major challenges in camera document analysis is to deal with the page curl and perspective distortions. In spite of the prevalence of dewarping techniques, no standard ...
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pr...
The choice of relevant features is very decisive in handwriting recognition rate. Our aim is to present some useful structural and statistical features and see their degree of var...
In this paper, we propose a new method based on wavelet transform, statistical features and central moments for both graphics and scene text detection in video images. The method ...
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Trung Quy Phan, Chew Li...
The sounds generated by a writing instrument provide a rich and under-utilized source of information for pattern recognition. We examine the feasibility of recognition of handwrit...
This paper addresses the difficult problem of symbol spotting for graphic documents. We propose an approach where each graphic document is indexed as a text document by using the ...
Multi-classifier approach is a widespread strategy used in many difficult classification problems. Traditionally, in a multi-classifier approach, a classification decision based o...
Giuseppe Pirlo, Claudia Adamita Trullo, Donato Imp...
The Handwriting Segmentation Contest was organized in the context of ICDAR2009 conference in order to record recent advances in off-line handwriting segmentation. This paper descr...