Document seal detection using GHT and character proximity graphs

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1282-1295

  Roy, Partha Pratim ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b   Lladós, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Generalized Hough transform; Graphical symbol spotting; Multi oriented character recognition; Seal recognition

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS; COMPONENT PAIRS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; GENERALIZED HOUGH TRANSFORM; GRAPHICAL SYMBOL SPOTTING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; MULTI-ORIENTED CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MULTISCALES; PROXIMITY GRAPHS; SCALE AND ROTATION; SPATIAL FEATURES; VOTING SCHEMES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ROTATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551558433     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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