TY  - CONF
AU  - David Fernandez
AU  - Josep Llados
AU  - Alicia Fornes
AU  - R.Manmatha
A2  - ICFHR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - On Influence of Line Segmentation in Efficient Word Segmentation in Old Manuscripts
BT  - 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
SP  - 763
EP  - 768
KW  - document image processing
KW  - handwritten character recognition
KW  - history
KW  - image segmentation
KW  - Spanish document
KW  - historical document
KW  - line segmentation
KW  - old handwritten document
KW  - old manuscript
KW  - word segmentation
KW  - Bifurcation
KW  - Dynamic programming
KW  - Handwriting recognition
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Noise
KW  - Skeleton
KW  - Segmentation
KW  - document analysis
KW  - document and text processing
KW  - handwriting analysis
KW  - heuristics
KW  - path-finding
N2  - he objective of this work is to show the importance of a good line segmentation to obtain better results in the segmentation of words of historical documents. We have used the approach developed by Manmatha and Rothfeder [1] to segment words in old handwritten documents. In their work the lines of the documents are extracted using projections. In this work, we have developed an approach to segment lines more efficiently. The new line segmentation algorithm tackles with skewed, touching and noisy lines, so it is significantly improves word segmentation. Experiments using Spanish documents from the Marriages Database of the Barcelona Cathedral show that this approach reduces the error rate by more than 20%
SN  - 978-1-4673-2262-1
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/FLF2012b.pdf
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2012.247
N1  - DAG
ID  - David Fernandez2012
ER  -