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Author (down) Fadi Dornaika; A.Assoum; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Automatic Dimensionality Estimation for Manifold Learning through Optimal Feature Selection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7626 Issue Pages 575-583  
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  Abstract A very important aspect in manifold learning is represented by automatic estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality. Unfortunately, this problem has received few attention in the literature of manifold learning. In this paper, we argue that feature selection paradigm can be used to the problem of automatic dimensionality estimation. Besides this, it also leads to improved recognition rates. Our approach for optimal feature selection is based on a Genetic Algorithm. As a case study for manifold learning, we have considered Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE) and Locally Linear Embedding (LLE). The effectiveness of the proposed framework was tested on the face recognition problem. Extensive experiments carried out on ORL, UMIST, Yale, and Extended Yale face data sets confirmed our hypothesis.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-34165-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference SSPR&SPR  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DAR2012 Serial 2174  
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Author (down) Ernest Valveny; Robert Benavente; Agata Lapedriza; Miquel Ferrer; Jaume Garcia; Gemma Sanchez edit   pdf
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  Title Adaptation of a computer programming course to the EXHE requirements: evaluation five years later Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2012 Publication European Journal of Engineering Education Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 37 Issue 3 Pages 243-254  
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  Notes DAG; CIC; OR; invisible;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ VBL2012 Serial 2070  
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Author (down) Emanuel Indermühle; Volkmar Frinken; Horst Bunke edit   pdf
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  Title Mode Detection in Online Handwritten Documents using BLSTM Neural Networks Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 302-307  
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  Abstract Mode detection in online handwritten documents refers to the process of distinguishing different types of contents, such as text, formulas, diagrams, or tables, one from another. In this paper a new approach to mode detection is proposed that uses bidirectional long-short term memory (BLSTM) neural networks. The BLSTM neural network is a novel type of recursive neural network that has been successfully applied in speech and handwriting recognition. In this paper we show that it has the potential to significantly outperform traditional methods for mode detection, which are usually based on stroke classification. As a further advantage over previous approaches, the proposed system is trainable and does not rely on user-defined heuristics. Moreover, it can be easily adapted to new or additional types of modes by just providing the system with new training data.  
  Address Bari, italy  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4673-2262-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICFHR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ IFB2012 Serial 2056  
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Author (down) Ekaterina Zaytseva; Santiago Segui; Jordi Vitria edit   pdf
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  Title Sketchable Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Object Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 17th Iberomerican Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7441 Issue Pages 374-381  
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  Abstract In this paper we investigate a new representation approach for visual object recognition. The new representation, called sketchable-HoG, extends the classical histogram of oriented gradients (HoG) feature by adding two different aspects: the stability of the majority orientation and the continuity of gradient orientations. In this way, the sketchable-HoG locally characterizes the complexity of an object model and introduces global structure information while still keeping simplicity, compactness and robustness. We evaluated the proposed image descriptor on publicly Catltech 101 dataset. The obtained results outperforms classical HoG descriptor as well as other reported descriptors in the literature.  
  Address Buenos Aires, Argentina  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33274-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CIARP  
  Notes OR; MILAB;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ZSV2012 Serial 2048  
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Author (down) Ekaterina Zaytseva; Jordi Vitria edit   pdf
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  Title A search based approach to non maximum suppression in face detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
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Face detectors typically produce a large number of false positives and this leads to the need to have a further non maximum suppression stage to eliminate multiple and spurious responses. This stage is based on considering spatial heuristics: true positive responses are selected by implicitly considering several restrictions on the spatial distribution of detector responses in natural images. In this paper we analyze the limitations of this approach and propose an efficient search method to overcome them. Results show how the application of this new non-maximum suppression approach to a simple face detector boosts its performance to state of the art results.
 
  Address Orlando; USA; September 2012  
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  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4673-2534-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ZaV2012 Serial 2060  
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Author (down) Diego Cheda; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Monocular Egomotion Estimation based on Image Matching Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 425-430  
  Keywords SLAM  
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  Address Portugal  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICPRAM  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPL2012a;; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 2011  
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Author (down) Diego Cheda; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Monocular Depth-based Background Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 323-328  
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  Abstract In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing the background of a scene from a video sequence with occluding objects. The images are taken by hand-held cameras. Our method composes the background by selecting the appropriate pixels from previously aligned input images. To do that, we minimize a cost function that penalizes the deviations from the following assumptions: background represents objects whose distance to the camera is maximal, and background objects are stationary. Distance information is roughly obtained by a supervised learning approach that allows us to distinguish between close and distant image regions. Moving foreground objects are filtered out by using stationariness and motion boundary constancy measurements. The cost function is minimized by a graph cuts method. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach to recover an occlusion-free background in a set of sequences.  
  Address Roma  
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  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPL2012b; ADAS @ adas @ cpl2012e Serial 2012  
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Author (down) Diego Cheda; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Pedestrian Candidates Generation using Monocular Cues Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 7-12  
  Keywords pedestrian detection  
  Abstract Common techniques for pedestrian candidates generation (e.g., sliding window approaches) are based on an exhaustive search over the image. This implies that the number of windows produced is huge, which translates into a significant time consumption in the classification stage. In this paper, we propose a method that significantly reduces the number of windows to be considered by a classifier. Our method is a monocular one that exploits geometric and depth information available on single images. Both representations of the world are fused together to generate pedestrian candidates based on an underlying model which is focused only on objects standing vertically on the ground plane and having certain height, according with their depths on the scene. We evaluate our algorithm on a challenging dataset and demonstrate its application for pedestrian detection, where a considerable reduction in the number of candidate windows is reached.  
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  Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1931-0587 ISBN 978-1-4673-2119-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IV  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPL2012c; ADAS @ adas @ cpl2012d Serial 2013  
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Author (down) Diego Alejandro Cheda edit  openurl
  Title Monocular Depth Cues in Computer Vision Applications Type Book Whole
  Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Depth perception is a key aspect of human vision. It is a routine and essential visual task that the human do effortlessly in many daily activities. This has often been associated with stereo vision, but humans have an amazing ability to perceive depth relations even from a single image by using several monocular cues.

In the computer vision field, if image depth information were available, many tasks could be posed from a different perspective for the sake of higher performance and robustness. Nevertheless, given a single image, this possibility is usually discarded, since obtaining depth information has frequently been performed by three-dimensional reconstruction techniques, requiring two or more images of the same scene taken from different viewpoints. Recently, some proposals have shown the feasibility of computing depth information from single images. In essence, the idea is to take advantage of a priori knowledge of the acquisition conditions and the observed scene to estimate depth from monocular pictorial cues. These approaches try to precisely estimate the scene depth maps by employing computationally demanding techniques. However, to assist many computer vision algorithms, it is not really necessary computing a costly and detailed depth map of the image. Indeed, just a rough depth description can be very valuable in many problems.

In this thesis, we have demonstrated how coarse depth information can be integrated in different tasks following alternative strategies to obtain more precise and robust results. In that sense, we have proposed a simple, but reliable enough technique, whereby image scene regions are categorized into discrete depth ranges to build a coarse depth map. Based on this representation, we have explored the potential usefulness of our method in three application domains from novel viewpoints: camera rotation parameters estimation, background estimation and pedestrian candidate generation. In the first case, we have computed camera rotation mounted in a moving vehicle applying two novels methods based on distant elements in the image, where the translation component of the image flow vectors is negligible. In background estimation, we have proposed a novel method to reconstruct the background by penalizing close regions in a cost function, which integrates color, motion, and depth terms. Finally, we have benefited of geometric and depth information available on single images for pedestrian candidate generation to significantly reduce the number of generated windows to be further processed by a pedestrian classifier. In all cases, results have shown that our approaches contribute to better performances.
 
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Daniel Ponsa;Antonio Lopez  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Che2012 Serial 2210  
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Author (down) Debora Gil;Agnes Borras;Ruth Aris;Mariano Vazquez;Pierre Lafortune; Guillame Houzeaux edit   pdf
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  Title What a difference in biomechanics cardiac fiber makes Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Statistical Atlases And Computational Models Of The Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7746 Issue Pages 253-260  
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  Abstract Computational simulations of the heart are a powerful tool for a comprehensive understanding of cardiac function and its intrinsic relationship with its muscular architecture. Cardiac biomechanical models require a vector field representing the orientation of cardiac fibers. A wrong orientation of the fibers can lead to a
non-realistic simulation of the heart functionality. In this paper we explore the impact of the fiber information on the simulated biomechanics of cardiac muscular anatomy. We have used the John Hopkins database to perform a biomechanical simulation using both a synthetic benchmark fiber distribution and the data obtained experimentally from DTI. Results illustrate how differences in fiber orientation affect heart deformation along cardiac cycle.
 
  Address Nice, France  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36960-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference STACOM  
  Notes IAM Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ GBA2012 Serial 1987  
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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa edit   pdf
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  Title Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Virtual and Real Worlds for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3492 - 3495  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation; Virtual worlds  
  Abstract Vision-based object detectors are crucial for different applications. They rely on learnt object models. Ideally, we would like to deploy our vision system in the scenario where it must operate, and lead it to self-learn how to distinguish the objects of interest, i.e., without human intervention. However, the learning of each object model requires labelled samples collected through a tiresome manual process. For instance, we are interested in exploring the self-training of a pedestrian detector for driver assistance systems. Our first approach to avoid manual labelling consisted in the use of samples coming from realistic computer graphics, so that their labels are automatically available [12]. This would make possible the desired self-training of our pedestrian detector. However, as we showed in [14], between virtual and real worlds it may be a dataset shift. In order to overcome it, we propose the use of unsupervised domain adaptation techniques that avoid human intervention during the adaptation process. In particular, this paper explores the use of the transductive SVM (T-SVM) learning algorithm in order to adapt virtual and real worlds for pedestrian detection (Fig. 1).  
  Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Tsukuba Science City, JAPAN Editor  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2012 Serial 1981  
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Author (down) David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo edit   pdf
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  Title Assessing agonist efficacy in an uncertain Em world Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 40th Keystone Symposia on mollecular and celular biology Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 79  
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  Abstract The operational model of agonism has been widely used for the analysis of agonist action since its formulation in 1983. The model includes the Em parameter, which is defined as the maximum response of the system. The methods for Em estimation provide Em values not significantly higher than the maximum responses achieved by full agonists. However, it has been found that that some classes of compounds as, for instance, superagonists and positive allosteric modulators can increase the full agonist maximum response, implying upper limits for Em and thereby posing doubts on the validity of Em estimates. Because of the correlation between Em and operational efficacy, τ, wrong Em estimates will yield wrong τ estimates.
In this presentation, the operational model of agonism and various methods for the simulation of allosteric modulation will be analyzed. Alternatives for curve fitting will be presented and discussed.
 
  Address Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada  
  Corporate Author Keystone Symposia Thesis  
  Publisher Keystone Symposia Place of Publication Editor A. Christopoulus and M. Bouvier  
  Language english Summary Language english Original Title  
  Series Editor Keystone Symposia Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Area Expedition Conference KSMCB  
  Notes IAM Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ RGG2012 Serial 1855  
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Author (down) David Masip; Alexander Todorov; Jordi Vitria edit   pdf
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  Title The Role of Facial Regions in Evaluating Social Dime Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 12th European Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops and Demonstrations Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7584 Issue II Pages 210-219  
  Keywords Workshops and Demonstrations  
  Abstract Facial trait judgments are an important information cue for people. Recent works in the Psychology field have stated the basis of face evaluation, defining a set of traits that we evaluate from faces (e.g. dominance, trustworthiness, aggressiveness, attractiveness, threatening or intelligence among others). We rapidly infer information from others faces, usually after a short period of time (< 1000ms) we perceive a certain degree of dominance or trustworthiness of another person from the face. Although these perceptions are not necessarily accurate, they influence many important social outcomes (such as the results of the elections or the court decisions). This topic has also attracted the attention of Computer Vision scientists, and recently a computational model to automatically predict trait evaluations from faces has been proposed. These systems try to mimic the human perception by means of applying machine learning classifiers to a set of labeled data. In this paper we perform an experimental study on the specific facial features that trigger the social inferences. Using previous results from the literature, we propose to use simple similarity maps to evaluate which regions of the face influence the most the trait inferences. The correlation analysis is performed using only appearance, and the results from the experiments suggest that each trait is correlated with specific facial characteristics.  
  Address Florence, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Andrea Fusiello, Vittorio Murino, Rita Cucchiara  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33867-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCVW  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MTV2012 Serial 2171  
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Author (down) David Geronimo; Frederic Lerasle; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title State-driven particle filter for multi-person tracking Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 11th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7517 Issue Pages 467-478  
  Keywords human tracking  
  Abstract Multi-person tracking can be exploited in applications such as driver assistance, surveillance, multimedia and human-robot interaction. With the help of human detectors, particle filters offer a robust method able to filter noisy detections and provide temporal coherence. However, some traditional problems such as occlusions with other targets or the scene, temporal drifting or even the lost targets detection are rarely considered, making the systems performance decrease. Some authors propose to overcome these problems using heuristics not explained
and formalized in the papers, for instance by defining exceptions to the model updating depending on tracks overlapping. In this paper we propose to formalize these events by the use of a state-graph, defining the current state of the track (e.g., potential , tracked, occluded or lost) and the transitions between states in an explicit way. This approach has the advantage of linking track actions such as the online underlying models updating, which gives flexibility to the system. It provides an explicit representation to adapt the multiple parallel trackers depending on the context, i.e., each track can make use of a specific filtering strategy, dynamic model, number of particles, etc. depending on its state. We implement this technique in a single-camera multi-person tracker and test
it in public video sequences.
 
  Address Brno, Chzech Republic  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Heidelberg Editor J. Blanc-Talon et al.  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Area Expedition Conference ACIVS  
  Notes ADAS Approved yes  
  Call Number GLL2012; ADAS @ adas @ gll2012a Serial 1990  
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Author (down) David Fernandez; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes; R.Manmatha edit   pdf
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  Title On Influence of Line Segmentation in Efficient Word Segmentation in Old Manuscripts Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 763-768  
  Keywords document image processing;handwritten character recognition;history;image segmentation;Spanish document;historical document;line segmentation;old handwritten document;old manuscript;word segmentation;Bifurcation;Dynamic programming;Handwriting recognition;Image segmentation;Measurement;Noise;Skeleton;Segmentation;document analysis;document and text processing;handwriting analysis;heuristics;path-finding  
  Abstract he objective of this work is to show the importance of a good line segmentation to obtain better results in the segmentation of words of historical documents. We have used the approach developed by Manmatha and Rothfeder [1] to segment words in old handwritten documents. In their work the lines of the documents are extracted using projections. In this work, we have developed an approach to segment lines more efficiently. The new line segmentation algorithm tackles with skewed, touching and noisy lines, so it is significantly improves word segmentation. Experiments using Spanish documents from the Marriages Database of the Barcelona Cathedral show that this approach reduces the error rate by more than 20%  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4673-2262-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICFHR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ FLF2012 Serial 2200  
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