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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Faisal Shafait; Seiichi Uchida; Masakazu Iwamura; Lluis Gomez; Sergi Robles; Joan Mas; David Fernandez; Jon Almazan; Lluis Pere de las Heras edit   pdf
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  Title ICDAR 2013 Robust Reading Competition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 1484-1493  
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  Abstract This report presents the final results of the ICDAR 2013 Robust Reading Competition. The competition is structured in three Challenges addressing text extraction in different application domains, namely born-digital images, real scene images and real-scene videos. The Challenges are organised around specific tasks covering text localisation, text segmentation and word recognition. The competition took place in the first quarter of 2013, and received a total of 42 submissions over the different tasks offered. This report describes the datasets and ground truth specification, details the performance evaluation protocols used and presents the final results along with a brief summary of the participating methods.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG; 600.056 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ KSU2013 Serial 2318  
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Author Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Multi-script Text Extraction from Natural Scenes Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 467-471  
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  Abstract Scene text extraction methodologies are usually based in classification of individual regions or patches, using a priori knowledge for a given script or language. Human perception of text, on the other hand, is based on perceptual organisation through which text emerges as a perceptually significant group of atomic objects. Therefore humans are able to detect text even in languages and scripts never seen before. In this paper, we argue that the text extraction problem could be posed as the detection of meaningful groups of regions. We present a method built around a perceptual organisation framework that exploits collaboration of proximity and similarity laws to create text-group hypotheses. Experiments demonstrate that our algorithm is competitive with state of the art approaches on a standard dataset covering text in variable orientations and two languages.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG; 600.056; 601.158; 601.197 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GoK2013 Serial 2310  
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Author David Fernandez; Simone Marinai; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes edit   pdf
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  Title Contextual Word Spotting in Historical Manuscripts using Markov Logic Networks Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 36-43  
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  Abstract Natural languages can often be modelled by suitable grammars whose knowledge can improve the word spotting results. The implicit contextual information is even more useful when dealing with information that is intrinsically described as one collection of records. In this paper, we present one approach to word spotting which uses the contextual information of records to improve the results. The method relies on Markov Logic Networks to probabilistically model the relational organization of handwritten records. The performance has been evaluated on the Barcelona Marriages Dataset that contains structured handwritten records that summarize marriage information.  
  Address washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2115-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference HIP  
  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ FML2013 Serial 2308  
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Author Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados; Tomokazu Sato; Masakazu Iwamura; Koichi Kise edit   pdf
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  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 (up) 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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  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013b Serial 2293  
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Author Andreas Fischer; Volkmar Frinken; Horst Bunke; Ching Y. Suen edit   pdf
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  Title Improving HMM-Based Keyword Spotting with Character Language Models Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 506-510  
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  Abstract Facing high error rates and slow recognition speed for full text transcription of unconstrained handwriting images, keyword spotting is a promising alternative to locate specific search terms within scanned document images. We have previously proposed a learning-based method for keyword spotting using character hidden Markov models that showed a high performance when compared with traditional template image matching. In the lexicon-free approach pursued, only the text appearance was taken into account for recognition. In this paper, we integrate character n-gram language models into the spotting system in order to provide an additional language context. On the modern IAM database as well as the historical George Washington database, we demonstrate that character language models significantly improve the spotting performance.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.045; 605.203 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ FFB2013 Serial 2295  
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Author Volkmar Frinken; Andreas Fischer; Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos edit   pdf
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  Title Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents using Very Large Vocabularies Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 67-72  
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  Abstract Language models are used in automatic transcription system to resolve ambiguities. This is done by limiting the vocabulary of words that can be recognized as well as estimating the n-gram probability of the words in the given text. In the context of historical documents, a non-unified spelling and the limited amount of written text pose a substantial problem for the selection of the recognizable vocabulary as well as the computation of the word probabilities. In this paper we propose for the transcription of historical Spanish text to keep the corpus for the n-gram limited to a sample of the target text, but expand the vocabulary with words gathered from external resources. We analyze the performance of such a transcription system with different sizes of external vocabularies and demonstrate the applicability and the significant increase in recognition accuracy of using up to 300 thousand external words.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2115-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference HIP  
  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 602.101 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ FFM2013 Serial 2296  
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Author Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Apostolos Antonacopoulos; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title An interactive appearance-based document retrieval system for historical newspapers Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 84-87  
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  Abstract In this paper we present a retrieval-based application aimed at assisting a user to semi-automatically segment an incoming flow of historical newspaper images by automatically detecting a particular type of pages based on their appearance. A visual descriptor is used to assess page similarity while a relevance feedback process allow refining the results iteratively. The application is tested on a large dataset of digitised historic newspapers.  
  Address Barcelona; February 2013  
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  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 605.203 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013a Serial 2290  
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Author Albert Gordo edit  openurl
  Title Document Image Representation, Classification and Retrieval in Large-Scale Domains Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Despite the “paperless office” ideal that started in the decade of the seventies, businesses still strive against an increasing amount of paper documentation. Companies still receive huge amounts of paper documentation that need to be analyzed and processed, mostly in a manual way. A solution for this task consists in, first, automatically scanning the incoming documents. Then, document images can be analyzed and information can be extracted from the data. Documents can also be automatically dispatched to the appropriate workflows, used to retrieve similar documents in the dataset to transfer information, etc.

Due to the nature of this “digital mailroom”, we need document representation methods to be general, i.e., able to cope with very different types of documents. We need the methods to be sound, i.e., able to cope with unexpected types of documents, noise, etc. And, we need to methods to be scalable, i.e., able to cope with thousands or millions of documents that need to be processed, stored, and consulted. Unfortunately, current techniques of document representation, classification and retrieval are not apt for this digital mailroom framework, since they do not fulfill some or all of these requirements.

Through this thesis we focus on the problem of document representation aimed at classification and retrieval tasks under this digital mailroom framework. We first propose a novel document representation based on runlength histograms, and extend it to cope with more complex documents such as multiple-page documents, or documents that contain more sources of information such as extracted OCR text. Then we focus on the scalability requirements and propose a novel binarization method which we dubbed PCAE, as well as two general asymmetric distances between binary embeddings that can significantly improve the retrieval results at a minimal extra computational cost. Finally, we note the importance of supervised learning when performing large-scale retrieval, and study several approaches that can significantly boost the results at no extra cost at query time.
 
  Address Barcelona  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Ernest Valveny;Florent Perronnin  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Gor2013 Serial 2277  
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Author Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Jean-Yves Ramel; Josep Llados edit  url
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  Title Multilevel Analysis of Attributed Graphs for Explicit Graph Embedding in Vector Spaces Type Book Chapter
  Year 2013 Publication Graph Embedding for Pattern Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) Issue Pages 1-26  
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  Abstract Ability to recognize patterns is among the most crucial capabilities of human beings for their survival, which enables them to employ their sophisticated neural and cognitive systems [1], for processing complex audio, visual, smell, touch, and taste signals. Man is the most complex and the best existing system of pattern recognition. Without any explicit thinking, we continuously compare, classify, and identify huge amount of signal data everyday [2], starting from the time we get up in the morning till the last second we fall asleep. This includes recognizing the face of a friend in a crowd, a spoken word embedded in noise, the proper key to lock the door, smell of coffee, the voice of a favorite singer, the recognition of alphabetic characters, and millions of more tasks that we perform on regular basis.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4614-4456-5 Medium  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ LRL2013b Serial 2271  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; R.Roset; Josep Llados; C.Montaner edit  openurl
  Title Automatic Index Generation of Digitized Map Series by Coordinate Extraction and Interpretation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage Abbreviated Journal  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RRL2011b Serial 1978  
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