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Author M. Visani; V.C.Kieu; Alicia Fornes; N.Journet
Title The ICDAR 2013 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1439-1443
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Abstract The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated both at staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we focus on the staff removal task and simulate a real case scenario: old music scores. For this purpose, we have generated a new set of images using two kinds of degradations: local noise and 3D distortions. This paper describes the dataset, distortion methods, evaluation metrics, the participant's methods and the obtained results.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VKF2013 Serial 2338
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; T.Benkhelfallah; V. Poulain d'Andecy
Title Field Extraction from Administrative Documents by Incremental Structural Templates Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1100 - 1104
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Abstract In this paper we present an incremental framework aimed at extracting field information from administrative document images in the context of a Digital Mail-room scenario. Given a single training sample in which the user has marked which fields have to be extracted from a particular document class, a document model representing structural relationships among words is built. This model is incrementally refined as the system processes more and more documents from the same class. A reformulation of the tf-idf statistic scheme allows to adjust the importance weights of the structural relationships among words. We report in the experimental section our results obtained with a large dataset of real invoices.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.56; 600.045; 605.203; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBP2013 Serial 2346
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Author Albert Gordo; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov
Title Document Classification and Page Stream Segmentation for Digital Mailroom Applications Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 621-625
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Abstract In this paper we present a method for the segmentation of continuous page streams into multipage documents and the simultaneous classification of the resulting documents. We first present an approach to combine the multiple pages of a document into a single feature vector that represents the whole document. Despite its simplicity and low computational cost, the proposed representation yields results comparable to more complex methods in multipage document classification tasks. We then exploit this representation in the context of page stream segmentation. The most plausible segmentation of a page stream into a sequence of multipage documents is obtained by optimizing a statistical model that represents the probability of each segmented multipage document belonging to a particular class. Experimental results are reported on a large sample of real administrative multipage documents.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013c Serial 2345
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Author L. Rothacker; Marçal Rusiñol; G.A. Fink
Title Bag-of-Features HMMs for segmentation-free word spotting in handwritten documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1305 - 1309
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Abstract Recent HMM-based approaches to handwritten word spotting require large amounts of learning samples and mostly rely on a prior segmentation of the document. We propose to use Bag-of-Features HMMs in a patch-based segmentation-free framework that are estimated by a single sample. Bag-of-Features HMMs use statistics of local image feature representatives. Therefore they can be considered as a variant of discrete HMMs allowing to model the observation of a number of features at a point in time. The discrete nature enables us to estimate a query model with only a single example of the query provided by the user. This makes our method very flexible with respect to the availability of training data. Furthermore, we are able to outperform state-of-the-art results on the George Washington dataset.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RRF2013 Serial 2344
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title New Approach for Symbol Recognition Combining Shape Context of Interest Points with Sparse Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 265-269
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbol description. Our method is built based on the combination of shape context of interest points descriptor and sparse representation. More specifically, we first learn a dictionary describing shape context of interest point descriptors. Then, based on information retrieval techniques, we build a vector model for each symbol based on its sparse representation in a visual vocabulary whose visual words are columns in the learneddictionary. The retrieval task is performed by ranking symbols based on similarity between vector models. Evaluation of our method, using benchmark datasets, demonstrates the validity of our approach and shows that it outperforms related state-of-theart methods.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2013b Serial 2331
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Author R. Bertrand; P. Gomez-Krämer; Oriol Ramos Terrades; P. Franco; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title A System Based On Intrinsic Features for Fraudulent Document Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 106-110
Keywords paper document; document analysis; fraudulent document; forgery; fake
Abstract Paper documents still represent a large amount of information supports used nowadays and may contain critical data. Even though official documents are secured with techniques such as printed patterns or artwork, paper documents suffer froma lack of security.
However, the high availability of cheap scanning and printing hardware allows non-experts to easily create fake documents. As the use of a watermarking system added during the document production step is hardly possible, solutions have to be proposed to distinguish a genuine document from a forged one.
In this paper, we present an automatic forgery detection method based on document’s intrinsic features at character level. This method is based on the one hand on outlier character detection in a discriminant feature space and on the other hand on the detection of strictly similar characters. Therefore, a feature set iscomputed for all characters. Then, based on a distance between characters of the same class.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGR2013a Serial 2332
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Author Francisco Cruz; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title Handwritten Line Detection via an EM Algorithm Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 718-722
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Abstract In this paper we present a handwritten line segmentation method devised to work on documents composed of several paragraphs with multiple line orientations. The method is based on a variation of the EM algorithm for the estimation of a set of regression lines between the connected components that compose the image. We evaluated our method on the ICDAR2009 handwriting segmentation contest dataset with promising results that overcome most of the presented methods. In addition, we prove the usability of the presented method by performing line segmentation on the George Washington database obtaining encouraging results.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CrT2013 Serial 2329
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Author Jon Almazan; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
Title A Deformable HOG-based Shape Descriptor Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1022-1026
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Abstract In this paper we deal with the problem of recognizing handwritten shapes. We present a new deformable feature extraction method that adapts to the shape to be described, dealing in this way with the variability introduced in the handwriting domain. It consists in a selection of the regions that best define the shape to be described, followed by the computation of histograms of oriented gradients-based features over these points. Our results significantly outperform other descriptors in the literature for the task of hand-drawn shape recognition and handwritten word retrieval
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ AFV2013 Serial 2326
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; David Fernandez; Ernest Valveny; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez
Title Unsupervised wall detector in architectural floor plan Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1245-1249
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Abstract Wall detection in floor plans is a crucial step in a complete floor plan recognition system. Walls define the main structure of buildings and convey essential information for the detection of other structural elements. Nevertheless, wall segmentation is a difficult task, mainly because of the lack of a standard graphical notation. The existing approaches are restricted to small group of similar notations or require the existence of pre-annotated corpus of input images to learn each new notation. In this paper we present an automatic wall segmentation system, with the ability to handle completely different notations without the need of any annotated dataset. It only takes advantage of the general knowledge that walls are a repetitive element, naturally distributed within the plan and commonly modeled by straight parallel lines. The method has been tested on four datasets of real floor plans with different notations, and compared with the state-of-the-art. The results show its suitability for different graphical notations, achieving higher recall rates than the rest of the methods while keeping a high average precision.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 600.056; 600.045 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HFV2013 Serial 2319
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Faisal Shafait; Seiichi Uchida; Masakazu Iwamura; Lluis Gomez; Sergi Robles; Joan Mas; David Fernandez; Jon Almazan; Lluis Pere de las Heras
Title ICDAR 2013 Robust Reading Competition Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1484-1493
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Abstract This report presents the final results of the ICDAR 2013 Robust Reading Competition. The competition is structured in three Challenges addressing text extraction in different application domains, namely born-digital images, real scene images and real-scene videos. The Challenges are organised around specific tasks covering text localisation, text segmentation and word recognition. The competition took place in the first quarter of 2013, and received a total of 42 submissions over the different tasks offered. This report describes the datasets and ground truth specification, details the performance evaluation protocols used and presents the final results along with a brief summary of the participating methods.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KSU2013 Serial 2318
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Author Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Multi-script Text Extraction from Natural Scenes Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 467-471
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Abstract Scene text extraction methodologies are usually based in classification of individual regions or patches, using a priori knowledge for a given script or language. Human perception of text, on the other hand, is based on perceptual organisation through which text emerges as a perceptually significant group of atomic objects. Therefore humans are able to detect text even in languages and scripts never seen before. In this paper, we argue that the text extraction problem could be posed as the detection of meaningful groups of regions. We present a method built around a perceptual organisation framework that exploits collaboration of proximity and similarity laws to create text-group hypotheses. Experiments demonstrate that our algorithm is competitive with state of the art approaches on a standard dataset covering text in variable orientations and two languages.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 601.158; 601.197 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GoK2013 Serial 2310
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Author David Fernandez; Simone Marinai; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title Contextual Word Spotting in Historical Manuscripts using Markov Logic Networks Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 36-43
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Abstract Natural languages can often be modelled by suitable grammars whose knowledge can improve the word spotting results. The implicit contextual information is even more useful when dealing with information that is intrinsically described as one collection of records. In this paper, we present one approach to word spotting which uses the contextual information of records to improve the results. The method relies on Markov Logic Networks to probabilistically model the relational organization of handwritten records. The performance has been evaluated on the Barcelona Marriages Dataset that contains structured handwritten records that summarize marriage information.
Address (up) washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FML2013 Serial 2308
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Author Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados; Tomokazu Sato; Masakazu Iwamura; Koichi Kise
Title Key-region detection for document images -applications to administrative document retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 230-234
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Abstract In this paper we argue that a key-region detector designed to take into account the special characteristics of document images can result in the detection of less and more meaningful key-regions. We propose a fast key-region detector able to capture aspects of the structural information of the document, and demonstrate its efficiency by comparing against standard detectors in an administrative document retrieval scenario. We show that using the proposed detector results to a smaller number of detected key-regions and higher performance without any drop in speed compared to standard state of the art detectors.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013b Serial 2293
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Author Andreas Fischer; Volkmar Frinken; Horst Bunke; Ching Y. Suen
Title Improving HMM-Based Keyword Spotting with Character Language Models Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 506-510
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Abstract Facing high error rates and slow recognition speed for full text transcription of unconstrained handwriting images, keyword spotting is a promising alternative to locate specific search terms within scanned document images. We have previously proposed a learning-based method for keyword spotting using character hidden Markov models that showed a high performance when compared with traditional template image matching. In the lexicon-free approach pursued, only the text appearance was taken into account for recognition. In this paper, we integrate character n-gram language models into the spotting system in order to provide an additional language context. On the modern IAM database as well as the historical George Washington database, we demonstrate that character language models significantly improve the spotting performance.
Address (up) Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.045; 605.203 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FFB2013 Serial 2295
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Author Volkmar Frinken; Andreas Fischer; Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos
Title Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents using Very Large Vocabularies Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 67-72
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Abstract Language models are used in automatic transcription system to resolve ambiguities. This is done by limiting the vocabulary of words that can be recognized as well as estimating the n-gram probability of the words in the given text. In the context of historical documents, a non-unified spelling and the limited amount of written text pose a substantial problem for the selection of the recognizable vocabulary as well as the computation of the word probabilities. In this paper we propose for the transcription of historical Spanish text to keep the corpus for the n-gram limited to a sample of the target text, but expand the vocabulary with words gathered from external resources. We analyze the performance of such a transcription system with different sizes of external vocabularies and demonstrate the applicability and the significant increase in recognition accuracy of using up to 300 thousand external words.
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FFM2013 Serial 2296
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