Automatic removal of crossed-out handwritten text and the effect on writer verification and identification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6815, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brink, Axel ^a   Van Der Klauw, Harro ^a   Schomaker, Lambert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crossed out text; Off line; Writer identification; Writer verification

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

FORENSIC DATASET; HANDWRITTEN TEXT; WRITER IDENTIFICATION; WRITER VERIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 41149171699     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.766466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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