Color features are among the most important features used in image database retrieval, especially in cases where no additional semantic information is available. Due to its compac...
Handwritten words are usually slant or Italicized due to the mechanism of handwriting and the personality. In order to improve the accuracy of character segmentation and recogniti...
KPN Research has developed an all-purpose check recognition system for the Dutch Postbank. This Image Recognition and Interpretation System (IRIS) is the result of more than thirt...
We present a document-specific OCR system and apply it to a corpus of faxed business letters. Unsupervised classification of the segmented character bitmaps on each page, using a ...
We address the problem of locating some anatomical bone structures on lateral cranial X-Ray Images. These structures are landmarks used in orthodontic therapy. The main problem in...
In this paper we describe a machine vision system for inspecting bearings, which are an important part of electro-mechanical kWh meters. The system consists of a personal computer ...
We address the problem of extending topographic maps to color images. A topographic map gives a morphological and a geometrical representation of the information contained in natu...
We present a method based on statistical properties of local image pixels for focussing attention on regions of text in arbitrary scenes where the text plane is not necessarily fr...