%0 Journal Article
%T Document Seal Detection Using Ght and Character Proximity Graphs
%A Partha Pratim Roy
%A Umapada Pal
%A Josep Llados
%J Pattern Recognition
%D 2011
%V 44
%N 6
%I Elsevier
%F Partha Pratim Roy2011
%O DAG
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%X This paper deals with automatic detection of seal (stamp) from documents with cluttered background. Seal detection involves a difficult challenge due to its multi-oriented nature, arbitrary shape, overlapping of its part with signature, noise, etc. Here, a seal object is characterized by scale and rotation invariant spatial feature descriptors computed from recognition result of individual connected components (characters). Scale and rotation invariant features are used in a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to recognize multi-scale and multi-oriented text characters. The concept of generalized Hough transform (GHT) is used to detect the seal and a voting scheme is designed for finding possible location of the seal in a document based on the spatial feature descriptor of neighboring component pairs. The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal in a document. Experiment is performed in an archive of historical documents of handwritten/printed English text. Experimental results show that the method is robust in locating seal instances of arbitrary shape and orientation in documents, and also efficient in indexing a collection of documents for retrieval purposes.
%K Seal recognition
%K Graphical symbol spotting
%K Generalized Hough transform
%K Multi-oriented character recognition
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2010.12.004
%P 1282-1295