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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Novel Feature Extraction and Classification Methodology for the Recognition of Historical Documents
In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line character recognition that mainly focuses on handling the difficult cases of historical fonts and styles. The proposed methodo...
Georgios Vamvakas, Basilios Gatos, Stavros J. Pera...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Document Image Retrieval with Local Feature Sequences
In recent years, many document image retrieval algorithms have been proposed. However, most of the current approaches either need good quality images or depend on the page layout ...
Jilin Li, Zhi-Gang Fan, Yadong Wu, Ning Le
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
High Performance Chinese/English Mixed OCR with Character Level Language Identification
Currently, there have been several high performance OCR products for Chinese or for English. However, no one OCR technique can be simultaneously fit for both the English and the C...
Kai Wang, Jianming Jin, Qingren Wang
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Voronoi++: A Dynamic Page Segmentation Approach Based on Voronoi and Docstrum Features
This paper presents a dynamic approach to document page segmentation. Current page segmentation algorithms lack the ability to dynamically adapt local variations in the size, orie...
Mudit Agrawal, David S. Doermann
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Pixel-level Statistical Structural Descriptor for Shape Measure and Recognition
A novel shape descriptor based on the histogram matrix of pixel-level structural features is presented. First, length ratios and angles between the centroid and contour points of ...
Jing Zhang, Wenyin Liu
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Robustness of Signature Verification Systems to Imitators with Increasing Skills
In this paper, we study the impact of an incremental level of skill in the forgeries against signature verification systems. Experiments are carried out using both off-line syste...
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Julian Fiérrez, ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text Segmentation in Colour Posters from the Spanish Civil War Era
The extraction of textual content from colour documents of a graphical nature is a complicated task. The text can be rendered in any colour, size and orientation while the existen...
Antonio Clavelli, Dimosthenis Karatzas
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Writer Adaptive Online Handwriting Recognition Using Incremental Linear Discriminant Analysis
Writer adaptive handwriting recognition, which has potential of increasing accuracies for a particular user, is the process of converting a writer-independent recognition system t...
Zhibin Huang, Kai Ding, Lianwen Jin, Xue Gao
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Semi-supervised Learning for Handwriting Recognition
Gregory R. Ball, Sargur N. Srihari