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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A robust technique for text extraction in mixed-type binary documents
A crucial preprocessing stage in applications such as OCR is text extraction from mixed-type documents. The present work, in contrast to most until now, successfully faces the pro...
Charalambos Strouthopoulos, Athanasios Nikolaidis
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Figure-ground discrimination and distortion-tolerant recognition of color characters in scene images
This paper proposes a new technique of figureground discrimination of color characters in scene images following two steps. The first step is temporary binarization by selecting o...
Toru Wakahara
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Retinal vessel tree segmentation using a deformable contour model
This paper presents an improved version of our specific methodology to detect the vessel tree in retinal angiographies. The automatic analysis of retinal vessel tree facilitates ...
Lucia Espona, María J. Carreira, Manuel Fra...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multiscale competitive code for efficient palmprint recognition
Coding-based method, which encodes the responses of a bank of filters into bitwise features, has been very successful in palmprint representation and matching. Palmprints, however...
Wangmeng Zuo, Feng Yue, Kuanquan Wang, David Zhang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Extraction of complex wavelet features for iris recognition
This paper presents a new feature extraction method for iris recognition. Since two dimensional complex wavelet transform (2D-CWT) does not only keep wavelet transform’s propert...
XiaoFu He, Pengfei Shi
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Semi-supervised marginal discriminant analysis based on QR decomposition
In this paper, a novel subspace learning method, semi-supervised marginal discriminant analysis (SMDA), is proposed for classification. SMDA aims at maintaining the intrinsic neig...
Rui Xiao, Pengfei Shi