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Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados |


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Touching Text Character Localization in Graphical Documents using SIFT |
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2010 |
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Graphics Recognition. Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. 8th International Workshop, GREC 2009. Selected Papers |
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Support Vector Machine; Text Component; Graphical Line; Document Image; Scale Invariant Feature Transform |
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Interpretation of graphical document images is a challenging task as it requires proper understanding of text/graphics symbols present in such documents. Difficulties arise in graphical document recognition when text and symbol overlapped/touched. Intersection of text and symbols with graphical lines and curves occur frequently in graphical documents and hence separation of such symbols is very difficult.
Several pattern recognition and classification techniques exist to recognize isolated text/symbol. But, the touching/overlapping text and symbol recognition has not yet been dealt successfully. An interesting technique, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), originally devised for object recognition can take care of overlapping problems. Even if SIFT features have emerged as a very powerful object descriptors, their employment in graphical documents context has not been investigated much. In this paper we present the adaptation of the SIFT approach in the context of text character localization (spotting) in graphical documents. We evaluate the applicability of this technique in such documents and discuss the scope of improvement by combining some state-of-the-art approaches. |
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Lluis Pere de las Heras; Ernest Valveny; Gemma Sanchez |


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Unsupervised and Notation-Independent Wall Segmentation in Floor Plans Using a Combination of Statistical and Structural Strategies |
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2014 |
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Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges |
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8746 |
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109-121 |
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Graphics recognition; Floor plan analysis; Object segmentation |
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In this paper we present a wall segmentation approach in floor plans that is able to work independently to the graphical notation, does not need any pre-annotated data for learning, and is able to segment multiple-shaped walls such as beams and curved-walls. This method results from the combination of the wall segmentation approaches [3, 5] presented recently by the authors. Firstly, potential straight wall segments are extracted in an unsupervised way similar to [3], but restricting even more the wall candidates considered in the original approach. Then, based on [5], these segments are used to learn the texture pattern of walls and spot the lost instances. The presented combination of both methods has been tested on 4 available datasets with different notations and compared qualitatively and quantitatively to the state-of-the-art applied on these collections. Additionally, some qualitative results on floor plans directly downloaded from the Internet are reported in the paper. The overall performance of the method demonstrates either its adaptability to different wall notations and shapes, and to document qualities and resolutions. |
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DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077 |
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Admin @ si @ HVS2014 |
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Lluis Pere de las Heras; David Fernandez; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados |


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Runlength Histogram Image Signature for Perceptual Retrieval of Architectural Floor Plans |
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2014 |
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Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges |
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8746 |
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135-146 |
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Graphics recognition; Graphics retrieval; Image classification |
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This paper proposes a runlength histogram signature as a perceptual descriptor of architectural plans in a retrieval scenario. The style of an architectural drawing is characterized by the perception of lines, shapes and texture. Such visual stimuli are the basis for defining semantic concepts as space properties, symmetry, density, etc. We propose runlength histograms extracted in vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions as a characterization of line and space properties in floorplans, so it can be roughly associated to a description of walls and room structure. A retrieval application illustrates the performance of the proposed approach, where given a plan as a query, similar ones are obtained from a database. A ground truth based on human observation has been constructed to validate the hypothesis. Additional retrieval results on sketched building’s facades are reported qualitatively in this paper. Its good description and its adaptability to two different sketch drawings despite its simplicity shows the interest of the proposed approach and opens a challenging research line in graphics recognition. |
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DAG; ADAS; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 600.076; 600.077 |
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Admin @ si @ HFF2014 |
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Francesco Brughi; Debora Gil; Llorenç Badiella; Eva Jove Casabella; Oriol Ramos Terrades |


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Exploring the impact of inter-query variability on the performance of retrieval systems |
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2014 |
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11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition |
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413–420 |
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This paper introduces a framework for evaluating the performance of information retrieval systems. Current evaluation metrics provide an average score that does not consider performance variability across the query set. In this manner, conclusions lack of any statistical significance, yielding poor inference to cases outside the query set and possibly unfair comparisons. We propose to apply statistical methods in order to obtain a more informative measure for problems in which different query classes can be identified. In this context, we assess the performance variability on two levels: overall variability across the whole query set and specific query class-related variability. To this end, we estimate confidence bands for precision-recall curves, and we apply ANOVA in order to assess the significance of the performance across different query classes. |
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Algarve; Portugal; October 2014 |
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ICIAR |
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IAM; DAG; 600.060; 600.061; 600.077; 600.075 |
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Admin @ si @ BGB2014 |
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2559 |
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Alicia Fornes; V.C.Kieu; M. Visani; N.Journet; Anjan Dutta |


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The ICDAR/GREC 2013 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal |
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2014 |
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Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges |
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8746 |
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207-220 |
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Competition; Graphics recognition; Music scores; Writer identification; Staff removal |
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The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR and GREC in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated in both staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we focus on the staff removal task and simulate a real case scenario concerning old and degraded music scores. For this purpose, we have generated a new set of semi-synthetic images using two degradation models that we previously introduced: local noise and 3D distortions. In this extended paper we provide an extended description of the dataset, degradation models, evaluation metrics, the participant’s methods and the obtained results that could not be presented at ICDAR and GREC proceedings due to page limitations. |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
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B.Lamiroy; J.-M. Ogier |
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Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes; Anjan Dutta |



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Large-scale Graph Indexing using Binary Embeddings of Node Contexts |
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2015 |
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10th IAPR-TC15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition |
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9069 |
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208-217 |
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Graph matching; Graph indexing; Application in document analysis; Word spotting; Binary embedding |
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Graph-based representations are experiencing a growing usage in visual recognition and retrieval due to their representational power in front of classical appearance-based representations in terms of feature vectors. Retrieving a query graph from a large dataset of graphs has the drawback of the high computational complexity required to compare the query and the target graphs. The most important property for a large-scale retrieval is the search time complexity to be sub-linear in the number of database examples. In this paper we propose a fast indexation formalism for graph retrieval. A binary embedding is defined as hashing keys for graph nodes. Given a database of labeled graphs, graph nodes are complemented with vectors of attributes representing their local context. Hence, each attribute counts the length of a walk of order k originated in a vertex with label l. Each attribute vector is converted to a binary code applying a binary-valued hash function. Therefore, graph retrieval is formulated in terms of finding target graphs in the database whose nodes have a small Hamming distance from the query nodes, easily computed with bitwise logical operators. As an application example, we validate the performance of the proposed methods in a handwritten word spotting scenario in images of historical documents. |
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Beijing; China; May 2015 |
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Springer International Publishing |
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C.-L.Liu; B.Luo; W.G.Kropatsch; J.Cheng |
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DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 |
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Admin @ si @ RLF2015a |
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Juan Ignacio Toledo; Jordi Cucurull; Jordi Puiggali; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados |


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Document Analysis Techniques for Automatic Electoral Document Processing: A Survey |
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2015 |
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E-Voting and Identity, Proceedings of 5th international conference, VoteID 2015 |
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Document image analysis; Computer vision; Paper ballots; Paper based elections; Optical scan; Tally |
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In this paper, we will discuss the most common challenges in electoral document processing and study the different solutions from the document analysis community that can be applied in each case. We will cover Optical Mark Recognition techniques to detect voter selections in the Australian Ballot, handwritten number recognition for preferential elections and handwriting recognition for write-in areas. We will also propose some particular adjustments that can be made to those general techniques in the specific context of electoral documents. |
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Bern; Switzerland; September 2015 |
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Klaus Broelemann; Anjan Dutta; Xiaoyi Jiang; Josep Llados |


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Hierarchical Plausibility-Graphs for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents |
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2014 |
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Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges |
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Graph representation of graphical documents often suffers from noise such as spurious nodes and edges, and their discontinuity. In general these errors occur during the low-level image processing viz. binarization, skeletonization, vectorization etc. Hierarchical graph representation is a nice and efficient way to solve this kind of problem by hierarchically merging node-node and node-edge depending on the distance. But the creation of hierarchical graph representing the graphical information often uses hard thresholds on the distance to create the hierarchical nodes (next state) of the lower nodes (or states) of a graph. As a result, the representation often loses useful information. This paper introduces plausibilities to the nodes of hierarchical graph as a function of distance and proposes a modified algorithm for matching subgraphs of the hierarchical graphs. The plausibility-annotated nodes help to improve the performance of the matching algorithm on two hierarchical structures. To show the potential of this approach, we conduct an experiment with the SESYD dataset. |
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Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier |
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Admin @ si @ BDJ2014 |
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Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados |


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Spotting Graphical Symbols in Camera-Acquired Documents in Real Time |
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2014 |
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Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges |
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In this paper we present a system devoted to spot graphical symbols in camera-acquired document images. The system is based on the extraction and further matching of ORB compact local features computed over interest key-points. Then, the FLANN indexing framework based on approximate nearest neighbor search allows to efficiently match local descriptors between the captured scene and the graphical models. Finally, the RANSAC algorithm is used in order to compute the homography between the spotted symbol and its appearance in the document image. The proposed approach is efficient and is able to work in real time. |
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Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier |
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Suman Ghosh; Ernest Valveny |


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A Sliding Window Framework for Word Spotting Based on Word Attributes |
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2015 |
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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Proceedings of 7th Iberian Conference , ibPRIA 2015 |
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Word spotting; Sliding window; Word attributes |
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In this paper we propose a segmentation-free approach to word spotting. Word images are first encoded into feature vectors using Fisher Vector. Then, these feature vectors are used together with pyramidal histogram of characters labels (PHOC) to learn SVM-based attribute models. Documents are represented by these PHOC based word attributes. To efficiently compute the word attributes over a sliding window, we propose to use an integral image representation of the document using a simplified version of the attribute model. Finally we re-rank the top word candidates using the more discriminative full version of the word attributes. We show state-of-the-art results for segmentation-free query-by-example word spotting in single-writer and multi-writer standard datasets. |
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Santiago de Compostela; June 2015 |
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