Language-independent text lines extraction using seam carving

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 563-568

  Saabni, Raid ^a,b   El Sana, Jihad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Triangle R and D Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Handwriting; Line Extraction; Multilingual; Seam Carving; Signed Distance Transform

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITING; LINE EXTRACTION; MULTILINGUAL; SEAM CARVING; SIGNED DISTANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355182464     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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