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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Geometric Centroids and their Relative Distances for Off-line Signature Verification
In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbolic representation of off-line signatures based on relative distances between centroids useful for verification. Distances betwee...
H. N. Prakash, D. S. Guru
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Semi-automatic Forensic Reconstruction of Ripped-up Documents
Manual reconstruction of ripped-up documents can be a very difficult and time-consuming task. This paper discusses a semi-automatic toolset that can be used for reconstructing rip...
Patrick de Smet
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
OCD: An Optimized and Canonical Document Format
Revealing and being able to manipulate the structured content of PDF documents is a difficult task, requiring pre-processing and reverse engineering techniques. In this paper, we ...
Jean-Luc Bloechle, Denis Lalanne, Rolf Ingold
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Restoration and Segmentation of Highly Degraded Characters Using a Shape-Independent Level Set Approach and Multi-level Classifi
Segmentation of ancient documents is challenging. In the worst cases, text characters become fragmented as the results of strong degradation processes. New active contour methods ...
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, David Rivest-Hénaul...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Words and Recognition Errors Based on Word Linguistic Context for Handwritten Sentence Recognition
In this paper we investigate the use of linguistic information given by language models to deal with word recognition errors on handwritten sentences. We focus especially on error...
Solen Quiniou, Mohamed Cheriet, Éric Anquet...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Disease-Specific Extraction of Text from Cardiac Echo Videos for Decision Support
Echo videos are an important modality for cardiac decision support. In addition to describing the shape and motion of the heart, they capture important diagnostic measurements as ...
Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, David Beymer, Arnon...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Unified Framework Based on the Level Set Approach for Segmentation of Unconstrained Double-Sided Document Images Suffering fro
A novel method for the segmentation of double-sided ancient document images suffering from bleed-through effect is presented. It takes advantage of the level set framework to prov...
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, David Rivest-Hénaul...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Kai Style Calligraphic Beautification Method for Handwriting Chinese Character
In this paper, we propose a method that can beautify user's handwriting to the character of Kai style calligraphy. Structural and style features of Chinese character are summ...
Weiping Xia, Lianwen Jin
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Tool for Ground-Truthing Text Lines and Characters in Off-Line Handwritten Chinese Documents
Annotating the regions, text lines and characters of document images is an important, but tedious and expensive task. A ground-truthing tool may largely alleviate the human burden...
Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Multiple HMMs Using On-line and Off-line Features for Off-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition
This paper presents an off-line Arabic Handwriting recognition system based on the selection of different state of the art features and the combination of multiple Hidden Markov M...
Mahdi Hamdani, Haikal El Abed, Monji Kherallah, Ad...