A novel feature extraction and classification methodology for the recognition of historical documents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 493-497

  Vamvakas, G ^a   Gatos, B ^a   Perantonis, S J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HISTORY; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

CONFUSION MATRICES; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; OFF-LINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RECURSIVE SUBDIVISION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 71249119133     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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