TY - CONF AU - Albert Gordo AU - Ernest Valveny A2 - ICDAR PY - 2009// TI - A rotation invariant page layout descriptor for document classification and retrieval BT - 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition SP - 481–485 N2 - Document classification usually requires of structural features such as the physical layout to obtain good accuracy rates on complex documents. This paper introduces a descriptor of the layout and a distance measure based on the cyclic dynamic time warping which can be computed in O(n2). This descriptor is translation invariant and can be easily modified to be scale and rotation invariant. Experiments with this descriptor and its rotation invariant modification are performed on the Girona archives database and compared against another common layout distance, the minimum weight edge cover. The experiments show that these methods outperform the MWEC both in accuracy and speed, particularly on rotated documents. SN - 1520-5363 SN - 978-1-4244-4500-4 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.110 N1 - DAG ID - Albert Gordo2009 ER -