A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for Layout Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts

Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR

Volumn 2014-December, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-145

  Asi, Abedelkadir ^a   Cohen, Rafi ^a   Kedem, Klara ^a   El Sana, Jihad ^a   Dinstein, Itshak ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Graph Cuts; Historical Documents; Layout Analysis; Page Segmentation; Statistical Inference

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; HISTORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

GRAPH CUT; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; LAYOUT ANALYSIS; PAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84942258117     PISSN: 21676445     EISSN: 21676453     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2014.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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