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A segmentation-free handwritten word spotting approach by relaxed feature matching
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computerized Image Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1054-2754
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Comp Vis Ctr, Dept Comp Sci, Bellaterra, Spain.
2016 (English)In: Proc. 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, IEEE, 2016, p. 150-155Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The automatic recognition of historical handwritten documents is still considered a challenging task. For this reason, word spotting emerges as a good alternative for making the information contained in these documents available to the user. Word spotting is defined as the task of retrieving all instances of the query word in a document collection, becoming a useful tool for information retrieval. In this paper we propose a segmentation-free word spotting approach able to deal with large document collections. Our method is inspired on feature matching algorithms that have been applied to image matching and retrieval. Since handwritten words have different shape, there is no exact transformation to be obtained. However, the sufficient degree of relaxation is achieved by using a Fourier based descriptor and an alternative approach to RANSAC called PUMA. The proposed approach is evaluated on historical marriage records, achieving promising results.

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IEEE, 2016. p. 150-155
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Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
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Computerized Image Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-310176DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2016.40ISI: 000390411200026ISBN: 9781509017928 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-310176DiVA, id: diva2:1055276
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DAS 2016, April 11–14, Santorini, Greece
Available from: 2016-06-13 Created: 2016-12-12 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved

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