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Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos and 10 others. 2016. Context, multimodality, and user collaboration in handwritten text processing: the CoMUN-HaT project. 3rd IberSPEECH.
Abstract: Processing of handwritten documents is a task that is of wide interest for many
purposes, such as those related to preserve cultural heritage. Handwritten text recognition techniques have been successfully applied during the last decade to obtain transcriptions of handwritten documents, and keyword spotting techniques have been applied for searching specific terms in image collections of handwritten documents. However, results on transcription and indexing are far from perfect. In this framework, the use of new data sources arises as a new paradigm that will allow for a better transcription and indexing of handwritten documents. Three main different data sources could be considered: context of the document (style, writer, historical time, topics,. . . ), multimodal data (representations of the document in a different modality, such as the speech signal of the dictation of the text), and user feedback (corrections, amendments,. . . ). The CoMUN-HaT project aims at the integration of these different data sources into the transcription and indexing task for handwritten documents: the use of context derived from the analysis of the documents, how multimodality can aid the recognition process to obtain more accurate transcriptions (including transcription in a modern version of the language), and integration into a userin-the-loop assisted text transcription framework. This will be reflected in the construction of a transcription and indexing platform that can be used by both professional and nonprofessional users, contributing to crowd-sourcing activities to preserve cultural heritage and to obtain an accessible version of the involved corpus.
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Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Marcal Rusinol, Alicia Fornes and Mauricio Villegas. 2021. Content and Style Aware Generation of Text-line Images for Handwriting Recognition. TPAMI.
Abstract: Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of manually labeled training data. To alleviate this labor-consuming problem, synthetic data produced with TrueType fonts has been often used in the training loop to gain volume and augment the handwriting style variability. However, there is a significant style bias between synthetic and real data which hinders the improvement of recognition performance. To deal with such limitations, we propose a generative method for handwritten text-line images, which is conditioned on both visual appearance and textual content. Our method is able to produce long text-line samples with diverse handwriting styles. Once properly trained, our method can also be adapted to new target data by only accessing unlabeled text-line images to mimic handwritten styles and produce images with any textual content. Extensive experiments have been done on making use of the generated samples to boost Handwritten Text Recognition performance. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the current state of the art.
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L.Tarazon and 6 others. 2009. Confidence Measures for Error Correction in Interactive Transcription of Handwritten Text. 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 567–574. (LNCS.)
Abstract: An effective approach to transcribe old text documents is to follow an interactive-predictive paradigm in which both, the system is guided by the human supervisor, and the supervisor is assisted by the system to complete the transcription task as efficiently as possible. In this paper, we focus on a particular system prototype called GIDOC, which can be seen as a first attempt to provide user-friendly, integrated support for interactive-predictive page layout analysis, text line detection and handwritten text transcription. More specifically, we focus on the handwriting recognition part of GIDOC, for which we propose the use of confidence measures to guide the human supervisor in locating possible system errors and deciding how to proceed. Empirical results are reported on two datasets showing that a word error rate not larger than a 10% can be achieved by only checking the 32% of words that are recognised with less confidence.
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Josep Llados. 2006. Computer Vision: Progress of Research and Development.
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Debora Gil, Jordi Gonzalez and Gemma Sanchez, eds. 2007. Computer Vision: Advances in Research and Development. Bellaterra (Spain), UAB. (2.)
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Gemma Sanchez, Alicia Fornes, Joan Mas and Josep Llados. 2007. Computer Vision Tools for Visually Impaired Children Learning.
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Gemma Sanchez, Alicia Fornes, Joan Mas and Josep Llados. 2007. Computer Vision Tools for Visually Impaired Children Learning.
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Antonio Lopez, Atsushi Imiya, Tomas Pajdla and Jose Manuel Alvarez. Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: Land, Sea & Air.
Abstract: A unified view of the use of computer vision technology for different types of vehicles
Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology focuses on computer vision as on-board technology, bringing together fields of research where computer vision is progressively penetrating: the automotive sector, unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles. It also serves as a reference for researchers of current developments and challenges in areas of the application of computer vision, involving vehicles such as advanced driver assistance (pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, traffic sign recognition), autonomous driving and robot navigation (with visual simultaneous localization and mapping) or unmanned aerial vehicles (obstacle avoidance, landscape classification and mapping, fire risk assessment).
The overall role of computer vision for the navigation of different vehicles, as well as technology to address on-board applications, is analysed.
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Miquel Ferrer, Ernest Valveny and F. Serratosa. 2007. Comparison Between two Spectral-based Methods for Median Graph Computation. 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4478(2):580–587.
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Salim Jouili, Salvatore Tabbone and Ernest Valveny. 2009. Comparing Graph Similarity Measures for Graphical Recognition. 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition. Springer. (LNCS.)
Abstract: In this paper we evaluate four graph distance measures. The analysis is performed for document retrieval tasks. For this aim, different kind of documents are used including line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each graph distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
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