Recognizing characters of ancient manuscripts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7531, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Diem, Markus ^a   Sablatnig, Robert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ancient manuscripts; Binarization free; OCR

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; BINARIZATIONS; CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; INTEREST POINTS; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; LOCAL INFORMATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; WEIGHTED VOTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 77951532625     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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