In this paper, we extend the concept of moment-based normalization of images from digit recognition to the recognition of handwritten text. Image moments provide robust estimates for text characteristics such as size ...
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(纸本)9780769547749;9781467322621
In this paper, we extend the concept of moment-based normalization of images from digit recognition to the recognition of handwritten text. Image moments provide robust estimates for text characteristics such as size and position of words within an image. For handwriting recognitionthe normalization procedure is applied to image slices independently. Additionally, a novel moment-based algorithm for line-thickness normalization is presented. the proposed normalization methods are evaluated on the RIMES database of French handwriting and the IAM database of English handwriting. For RIMES we achieve an improvement from 16.7% word error rate to 13.4% and for IAM from 46.6% to 37.3%.
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