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Author David Aldavert; Marçal Rusiñol; Ricardo Toledo
Title Automatic Static/Variable Content Separation in Administrative Document Images Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract In this paper we present an automatic method for separating static and variable content from administrative document images. An alignment approach is able to unsupervisedly build probabilistic templates from a set of examples of the same document kind. Such templates define which is the likelihood of every pixel of being either static or variable content. In the extraction step, the same alignment technique is used to match
an incoming image with the template and to locate the positions where variable fields appear. We validate our approach on the public NIST Structured Tax Forms Dataset.
Address Kyoto; Japan; November 2017
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Call Number Admin @ si @ ART2017 Serial 3001
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Author Albert Berenguel; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados; Cristina Cañero
Title Evaluation of Texture Descriptors for Validation of Counterfeit Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1237-1242
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Abstract This paper describes an exhaustive comparative analysis and evaluation of different existing texture descriptor algorithms to differentiate between genuine and counterfeit documents. We include in our experiments different categories of algorithms and compare them in different scenarios with several counterfeit datasets, comprising banknotes and identity documents. Computational time in the extraction of each descriptor is important because the final objective is to use it in a real industrial scenario. HoG and CNN based descriptors stands out statistically over the rest in terms of the F1-score/time ratio performance.
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 601.269; 600.097; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRL2017 Serial 3092
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Author Suman Ghosh; Ernest Valveny
Title Visual attention models for scene text recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract arXiv:1706.01487
In this paper we propose an approach to lexicon-free recognition of text in scene images. Our approach relies on a LSTM-based soft visual attention model learned from convolutional features. A set of feature vectors are derived from an intermediate convolutional layer corresponding to different areas of the image. This permits encoding of spatial information into the image representation. In this way, the framework is able to learn how to selectively focus on different parts of the image. At every time step the recognizer emits one character using a weighted combination of the convolutional feature vectors according to the learned attention model. Training can be done end-to-end using only word level annotations. In addition, we show that modifying the beam search algorithm by integrating an explicit language model leads to significantly better recognition results. We validate the performance of our approach on standard SVT and ICDAR'03 scene text datasets, showing state-of-the-art performance in unconstrained text recognition.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GhV2017b Serial 3080
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Author Suman Ghosh; Ernest Valveny
Title R-PHOC: Segmentation-Free Word Spotting using CNN Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Convolutional neural network; Image segmentation; Artificial neural network; Nearest neighbor search
Abstract arXiv:1707.01294
This paper proposes a region based convolutional neural network for segmentation-free word spotting. Our network takes as input an image and a set of word candidate bound- ing boxes and embeds all bounding boxes into an embedding space, where word spotting can be casted as a simple nearest neighbour search between the query representation and each of the candidate bounding boxes. We make use of PHOC embedding as it has previously achieved significant success in segmentation- based word spotting. Word candidates are generated using a simple procedure based on grouping connected components using some spatial constraints. Experiments show that R-PHOC which operates on images directly can improve the current state-of- the-art in the standard GW dataset and performs as good as PHOCNET in some cases designed for segmentation based word spotting.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GhV2017a Serial 3079
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Author Suman Ghosh; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny
Title Efficient indexing for Query By String text retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 6th IAPR International Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition CBDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1236 - 1240
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Abstract This paper deals with Query By String word spotting in scene images. A hierarchical text segmentation algorithm based on text specific selective search is used to find text regions. These regions are indexed per character n-grams present in the text region. An attribute representation based on Pyramidal Histogram of Characters (PHOC) is used to compare text regions with the query text. For generation of the index a similar attribute space based Pyramidal Histogram of character n-grams is used. These attribute models are learned using linear SVMs over the Fisher Vector [1] representation of the images along with the PHOC labels of the corresponding strings.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGK2015 Serial 2693
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Author J. Chazalon; Marçal Rusiñol; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Improving Document Matching Performance by Local Descriptor Filtering Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 6th IAPR International Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition CBDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1216 - 1220
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Abstract In this paper we propose an effective method aimed at reducing the amount of local descriptors to be indexed in a document matching framework. In an off-line training stage, the matching between the model document and incoming images is computed retaining the local descriptors from the model that steadily produce good matches. We have evaluated this approach by using the ICDAR2015 SmartDOC dataset containing near 25 000 images from documents to be captured by a mobile device. We have tested the performance of this filtering step by using
ORB and SIFT local detectors and descriptors. The results show an important gain both in quality of the final matching as well as in time and space requirements.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077; 601.223; 600.084 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CRO2015a Serial 2680
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Lluis Gomez; Anguelos Nicolaou; Suman Ghosh; Andrew Bagdanov; Masakazu Iwamura; J. Matas; L. Neumann; V. Ramaseshan; S. Lu ; Faisal Shafait; Seiichi Uchida; Ernest Valveny
Title ICDAR 2015 Competition on Robust Reading Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1156-1160
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Call Number Admin @ si @ KGN2015 Serial 2690
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados; David Fernandez; Cristina Cañero
Title Use case visual Bag-of-Words techniques for camera based identity document classification Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 721 - 725
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Abstract Nowadays, automatic identity document recognition, including passport and driving license recognition, is at the core of many applications within the administrative and service sectors, such as police, hospitality, car renting, etc. In former years, the document information was manually extracted whereas today this data is recognized automatically from images obtained by flat-bed scanners. Yet, since these scanners tend to be expensive and voluminous, companies in the sector have recently turned their attention to cheaper, small and yet computationally powerful scanners: the mobile devices. The document identity recognition from mobile images enclose several new difficulties w.r.t traditional scanned images, such as the loss of a controlled background, perspective, blurring, etc. In this paper we present a real application for identity document classification of images taken from mobile devices. This classification process is of extreme importance since a prior knowledge of the document type and origin strongly facilitates the subsequent information extraction. The proposed method is based on a traditional Bagof-Words in which we have taken into consideration several key aspects to enhance recognition rate. The method performance has been studied on three datasets containing more than 2000 images from 129 different document classes.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077; 600.061; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HRL2015a Serial 2726
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; J. Chazalon; Jean-Marc Ogier; Josep Llados
Title A Comparative Study of Local Detectors and Descriptors for Mobile Document Classification Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 596-600
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Abstract In this paper we conduct a comparative study of local key-point detectors and local descriptors for the specific task of mobile document classification. A classification architecture based on direct matching of local descriptors is used as baseline for the comparative study. A set of four different key-point
detectors and four different local descriptors are tested in all the possible combinations. The experiments are conducted in a database consisting of 30 model documents acquired on 6 different backgrounds, totaling more than 36.000 test images.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.084; 600.61; 601.223; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RCO2015 Serial 2684
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Author R. Bertrand; Oriol Ramos Terrades; P. Gomez-Kramer; P. Franco; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title A Conditional Random Field model for font forgery detection Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 576 - 580
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Abstract Nowadays, document forgery is becoming a real issue. A large amount of documents that contain critical information as payment slips, invoices or contracts, are constantly subject to fraudster manipulation because of the lack of security regarding this kind of document. Previously, a system to detect fraudulent documents based on its intrinsic features has been presented. It was especially designed to retrieve copy-move forgery and imperfection due to fraudster manipulation. However, when a set of characters is not present in the original document, copy-move forgery is not feasible. Hence, the fraudster will use a text toolbox to add or modify information in the document by imitating the font or he will cut and paste characters from another document where the font properties are similar. This often results in font type errors. Thus, a clue to detect document forgery consists of finding characters, words or sentences in a document with font properties different from their surroundings. To this end, we present in this paper an automatic forgery detection method based on document font features. Using the Conditional Random Field a measurement of probability that a character belongs to a specific font is made by comparing the character font features to a knowledge database. Then, the character is classified as a genuine or a fake one by comparing its probability to belong to a certain font type with those of the neighboring characters.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BRG2015 Serial 2725
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados
Title Towards Query-by-Speech Handwritten Keyword Spotting Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 501-505
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Abstract In this paper, we present a new querying paradigm for handwritten keyword spotting. We propose to represent handwritten word images both by visual and audio representations, enabling a query-by-speech keyword spotting system. The two representations are merged together and projected to a common sub-space in the training phase. This transform allows to, given a spoken query, retrieve word instances that were only represented by the visual modality. In addition, the same method can be used backwards at no additional cost to produce a handwritten text-tospeech system. We present our first results on this new querying mechanism using synthetic voices over the George Washington
dataset.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.084; 600.061; 601.223; 600.077;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RAT2015b Serial 2682
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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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Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2013b Serial 2331
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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 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 Alicia Fornes; Xavier Otazu; Josep Llados
Title Show through cancellation and image enhancement by multiresolution contrast processing Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 200-204
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Abstract Historical documents suffer from different types of degradation and noise such as background variation, uneven illumination or dark spots. In case of double-sided documents, another common problem is that the back side of the document usually interferes with the front side because of the transparency of the document or ink bleeding. This effect is called the show through phenomenon. Many methods are developed to solve these problems, and in the case of show-through, by scanning and matching both the front and back sides of the document. In contrast, our approach is designed to use only one side of the scanned document. We hypothesize that show-trough are low contrast components, while foreground components are high contrast ones. A Multiresolution Contrast (MC) decomposition is presented in order to estimate the contrast of features at different spatial scales. We cancel the show-through phenomenon by thresholding these low contrast components. This decomposition is also able to enhance the image removing shadowed areas by weighting spatial scales. Results show that the enhanced images improve the readability of the documents, allowing scholars both to recover unreadable words and to solve ambiguities.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 602.006; 600.045; 600.061; 600.052;CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FOL2013 Serial 2241
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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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Notes DAG; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGR2013a Serial 2332
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