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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings Through Graph Paths Hashing Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 982-986
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Abstract In this paper we propose a symbol spotting technique through hashing the shape descriptors of graph paths (Hamiltonian paths). Complex graphical structures in line drawings can be efficiently represented by graphs, which ease the accurate localization of the model symbol. Graph paths are the factorized substructures of graphs which enable robust recognition even in the presence of noise and distortion. In our framework, the entire database of the graphical documents is indexed in hash tables by the locality sensitive hashing (LSH) of shape descriptors of the paths. The hashing data structure aims to execute an approximate k-NN search in a sub-linear time. The spotting method is formulated by a spatial voting scheme to the list of locations of the paths that are decided during the hash table lookup process. We perform detailed experiments with various dataset of line drawings and the results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the technique.
Address Beijing, China
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4577-1350-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DLP2011b Serial 1791
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Ernest Valveny
Title Wall Patch-Based Segmentation in Architectural Floorplans Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1270-1274
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Abstract Segmentation of architectural floor plans is a challenging task, mainly because of the large variability in the notation between different plans. In general, traditional techniques, usually based on analyzing and grouping structural primitives obtained by vectorization, are only able to handle a reduced range of similar notations. In this paper we propose an alternative patch-based segmentation approach working at pixel level, without need of vectorization. The image is divided into a set of patches and a set of features is extracted for every patch. Then, each patch is assigned to a visual word of a previously learned vocabulary and given a probability of belonging to each class of objects. Finally, a post-process assigns the final label for every pixel. This approach has been applied to the detection of walls on two datasets of architectural floor plans with different notations, achieving high accuracy rates.
Address Beiging, China
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-0-7695-4520-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HMS2011a Serial 1792
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sergi Robles; Joan Mas; Farshad Nourbakhsh; Partha Pratim Roy
Title ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition – Challege 1: Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email) Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1485-1490
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Abstract This paper presents the results of the first Challenge of ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition. Challenge 1 is focused on the extraction of text from born-digital images, specifically from images found in Web pages and emails. The challenge was organized in terms of three tasks that look at different stages of the process: text localization, text segmentation and word recognition. In this paper we present the results of the challenge for all three tasks, and make an open call for continuous participation outside the context of ICDAR 2011.
Address Beijing, China
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4577-1350-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRM2011 Serial 1793
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Author Alicia Fornes; Anjan Dutta; Albert Gordo; Josep Llados
Title The ICDAR 2011 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal and Writer Identification Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1511-1515
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Abstract In the last years, there has been a growing interest in the analysis of handwritten music scores. In this sense, our goal has been to foster the interest in the analysis of handwritten music scores by the proposal of two different competitions: Staff removal and Writer Identification. Both competitions have been tested on the CVC-MUSCIMA database: a ground-truth of handwritten music score images. This paper describes the competition details, including the dataset and ground-truth, the evaluation metrics, and a short description of the participants, their methods, and the obtained results.
Address Beijing, China
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ISSN ISBN 978-0-7695-4520-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FDG2011b Serial 1794
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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
Title Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph and Approximate Neighborhood String Matching for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1078-1082
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Abstract This paper deals with a subgraph matching problem in Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) applied to symbol spotting in graphical documents. RAG is a very important, efficient and natural way of representing graphical information with a graph but this is limited to cases where the information is well defined with perfectly delineated regions. What if the information we are interested in is not confined within well defined regions? This paper addresses this particular problem and solves it by defining near convex grouping of oriented line segments which results in near convex regions. Pure convexity imposes hard constraints and can not handle all the cases efficiently. Hence to solve this problem we have defined a new type of convexity of regions, which allows convex regions to have concavity to some extend. We call this kind of regions Near Convex Regions (NCRs). These NCRs are then used to create the Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph (NCRAG) and with this representation we have formulated the problem of symbol spotting in graphical documents as a subgraph matching problem. For subgraph matching we have used the Approximate Edit Distance Algorithm (AEDA) on the neighborhood string, which starts working after finding a key node in the input or target graph and iteratively identifies similar nodes of the query graph in the neighborhood of the key node. The experiments are performed on artificial, real and distorted datasets.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 601.152 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DLB2013a Serial 2358
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Author D. Perez; L. Tarazon; N. Serrano; F.M. Castro; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Juan
Title The GERMANA Database Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 301-305
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Abstract A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. GERMANA is the result of digitising and annotating a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891, in which most pages only contain nearly calligraphed text written on ruled sheets of well-separated lines. To our knowledge, it is the first publicly available database for handwriting research, mostly written in Spanish and comparable in size to standard databases. Due to its sequential book structure, it is also well-suited for realistic assessment of interactive handwriting recognition systems. To provide baseline results for reference in future studies, empirical results are also reported, using standard techniques and tools for preprocessing, feature extraction, HMM-based image modelling, and language modelling.
Address Barcelona; Spain
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PTS2009 Serial 1870
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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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
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 Washington; USA; August 2013
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Area Expedition Conference (down) ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
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 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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