TY  - CONF
AU  - David Fernandez
AU  - Pau Riba
AU  - Alicia Fornes
AU  - Josep Llados
A2  - ICFHR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - On the Influence of Key Point Encoding for Handwritten Word Spotting
BT  - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
SP  - 476
EP  - 481
KW  - Local descriptors
KW  - Interest points
KW  - Handwritten documents
KW  - Word spotting
KW  - Historical document analysis
N2  - In this paper we evaluate the influence of the selection of key points and the associated features in the performance of word spotting processes. In general, features can be extracted from a number of characteristic points like corners, contours, skeletons, maxima, minima, crossings, etc. A number of descriptors exist in the literature using different interest point detectors. But the intrinsic variability of handwriting vary strongly on the performance if the interest points are not stable enough. In this paper, we analyze the performance of different descriptors for local interest points. As benchmarking dataset we have used the Barcelona Marriage Database that contains handwritten records of marriages over five centuries.
SN  - 2167-6445
SN  - 978-1-4799-4335-7
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/FRF2014.pdf
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.86
N1  - DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077
ID  - David Fernandez2014
ER  -