TY - CONF AU - Partha Pratim Roy AU - Umapada Pal AU - Josep Llados A2 - SAC PY - 2010// TI - Seal Object Detection in Document Images using GHT of Local Component Shapes BT - 10th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing SP - 23–27 N2 - Due to noise, overlapped text/signature and multi-oriented nature, seal (stamp) object detection involves a difficult challenge. This paper deals with automatic detection of seal from documents with cluttered background. Here, a seal object is characterized by scale and rotation invariant spatial feature descriptors (distance and angular position) computed from recognition result of individual connected components (characters). Recognition of multi-scale and multi-oriented component is done using Support Vector Machine classifier. Generalized Hough Transform (GHT) is used to detect the seal and a voting is casted for finding possible location of the seal object in a document based on these spatial feature descriptor of components pairs. The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal object in a document. Experimental results show that, the method is efficient to locate seal instance of arbitrary shape and orientation in documents. UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1774088.1774094 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1774088.1774094 N1 - DAG ID - Partha Pratim Roy2010 ER -