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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text Detection and Localization in Complex Scene Images using Constrained AdaBoost Algorithm
We have proposed a complete system for text detection and localization in gray scale scene images. A boosting framework integrating feature and weak classifier selection based on...
Shehzad Muhammad Hanif, Lionel Prevost
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text Localization in Natural Scene Images Based on Conditional Random Field
This paper proposes a novel hybrid method to robustly and accurately localize texts in natural scene images. A text region detector is designed to generate a text confidence map,...
Yi-Feng Pan, Xinwen Hou, Cheng-Lin Liu
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Resisting Forgery Attacks via Pseudo-Signatures
Recent work has shown that certain handwriting biometrics are susceptible to forgery attacks, both human- and machine-based. In this paper, we examine a new scheme for using handw...
Jin Chen, Daniel P. Lopresti, Fabian Monrose
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Segmentation-free Word Spotting in Historical Printed Documents
In this paper, a new efficient word spotting methodology is presented that can be applied to historical printed documents without requiring any previous block or word segmentation...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scaling Up Whole-Book Recognition
We describe the results of large-scale experiments with algorithms for unsupervised improvement of recognition of book-images using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adap...
Pingping Xiu, Henry S. Baird
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-Exposure Document Fusion Based on Edge-Intensities
This paper presents a new algorithm for fusioning images of text-documents taken with different exposures. It is compared to several standard block oriented exposure- and focus-bl...
Marco Block, Maxim Schaubert, Fabian Wiesel, Ra&ua...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Online Recognition of Multi-Stroke Symbols with Orthogonal Series
We propose an efficient method to recognize multi-stroke handwritten symbols. The method is based on computing the truncated Legendre-Sobolev expansions of the coordinate functio...
Oleg Golubitsky, Stephen M. Watt
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Rejection Strategies with Multiple Classifiers for Handwritten Character Recognition
With rejection strategies in a handwriting recognition system, we are able to improve the reliability and accuracy of the recognized characters. In this paper, we propose several ...
Xu-Cheng Yin, Hong-Wei Hao, Yun-Feng Tang, Jun Sun...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Handwritten Text Line Segmentation by Shredding Text into its Lines
In this paper, we propose a novel technique to segment handwritten document images into text lines by shredding their surface with local minima tracers. Our approach is based on t...
Anguelos Nicolaou, Basilios Gatos