Handwritten and Machine Printed text separation in document images using the bag of Visual Words Paradigm

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-108

  Zagoris, Konstantinos ^a,b   Pratikakis, Ioannis ^b   Antonacopoulos, Apostolos ^a   Gatos, Basilis ^c   Papamarkos, Nikos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAG-OF-VISUAL-WORDS; DESCRIPTORS; DIGITISATION; DOCUMENT IMAGES; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; MACHINE-PRINTED AND HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; NEW APPROACHES; PRINTED TEXTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

SEPARATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874235049     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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