Character segmentation is a necessary preprocessing step for character recognition in many handwritten word recognition systems. The most difficult case in character segmentation is the cursive script. Fully cursive n...
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Handwriting based gender identification at the word level is challenging due to free style writing, use of different scripts, and inadequate information. This paper presents a new method based on Multi-Gabor Response ...
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Edge detection is one of the most commonly used operations in image processing and patternrecognition, the reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the boundary between an object and th...
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Edge detection is one of the most commonly used operations in image processing and patternrecognition, the reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and indicates the boundary between overlapping objects. This means that if the edges in an image can be identified accurately, all of the objects can be located and basic properties such as area, perimeter, and shape can be measured. Since computervision involves the identification and classification of objects in an image, edge detection is an essential tool. Efficient and accurate edge detection will lead to increase the performance of subsequent image processing techniques, including image segmentation, object-based image coding, and image retrieval. A novel color edge detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. On the basis of standard deviation calculation of pixels the discontinuity among the pixels are detected. Then the image is segmented into a binary image with a fixed threshold where black pixels signify homogeneous region and white pixels signify edges. Finally, a thinning technique is applied to extract thin edges. The proposed method is applied over large database of color images both synthetic and real life images and performance of the algorithm is evident from the results and is comparable with other edge detection algorithms.
This paper considers the offline signature verification problem which is considered to be an important research line in the field of patternrecognition. In this work we propose hybrid features that consider the local...
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(纸本)9781509048489
This paper considers the offline signature verification problem which is considered to be an important research line in the field of patternrecognition. In this work we propose hybrid features that consider the local features and their global statistics in the signature image. This has been done by creating a vocabulary of histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs). We impose weights on these local features based on the height information of water reservoirs obtained from the signature. Spatial information between local features are thought to play a vital role in considering the geometry of the signatures which distinguishes the originals from the forged ones. Nevertheless, learning a condensed set of higher order neighbouring features based on visual words, e.g., doublets and triplets, continues to be a challenging problem as possible combinations of visual words grow exponentially. To avoid this explosion of size, we create a code of local pairwise features which are represented as joint descriptors. Local features are paired based on the edges of a graph representation built upon the Delaunay triangulation. We reveal the advantage of combining both type of visual codebooks (order one and pairwise) for signature verification task. This is validated through an encouraging result on two benchmark datasets viz. CEDAR and GPDS300.
Handwritten Signatures are one of the widely used biometrics for document authentication as well as human authorization. The purpose of this paper is to present an off-line signature verification system involving Hind...
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Handwritten Signatures are one of the widely used biometrics for document authentication as well as human authorization. The purpose of this paper is to present an off-line signature verification system involving Hindi signatures. Signature verification is a process by which the questioned signature is examined in detail in order to determine whether it belongs to the claimed person or not. Despite of substantial research in the field of signature verification involving Western signatures, very little attention has been dedicated to non-Western signatures such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian etc. In this paper, the performance of an off-line signature verification system involving Hindi signatures, whose style is distinct from Western scripts, has been investigated. The gradient and Zernike moment features were employed and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) were considered for verification. To the best of the authors' knowledge, Hindi signatures have never been used for the task of signature verification and this is the first report of using Hindi signatures in this area. The Hindi signature database employed for experimentation consisted of 840 (35×24) genuine signatures and 1050 (35×30) forgeries. An encouraging accuracy of 7.42% FRR and 4.28% FAR were obtained following experimentation when the gradient features were employed.
Book flipping scanning refers to the process of recording a book while the user performs the flipping action of its pages. In recent years it has gained much attention as it reduces the workload of book digitization s...
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Book flipping scanning refers to the process of recording a book while the user performs the flipping action of its pages. In recent years it has gained much attention as it reduces the workload of book digitization significantly. It is a challenging task because flipping at random speed and direction causes difficulties to identify distinct open page images (OPI) which represent each page of the book. In this paper, we propose a fast technique for removing duplicate open pages introduced in the video stream due to erroneous flipping. We present an algorithm that exploits cues from edge information of flipping pages. The nature of the cues extracted from the region of interest (ROI) of the frame, determines the flipping or an open state of a page whereas temporal position a flipping page determines the direction of the flipping. Combining these information we decide whether an open page image is a duplicate or not. Experiments are performed on video documents recorded using a standard resolution camera to validate the duplicate open page removal algorithm and we have obtained 95% accuracy.
Edge detection is one of the most commonly used operations in image processing and patternrecognition, the reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the boundary between an object and th...
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(纸本)9781424451043
Edge detection is one of the most commonly used operations in image processing and patternrecognition, the reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and indicates the boundary between overlapping objects. This means that if the edges in an image can be identified accurately, all of the objects can be located and basic properties such as area, perimeter, and shape can be measured. Since computervision involves the identification and classification of objects in an image, edge detection is an essential tool. Efficient and accurate edge detection will lead to increase the performance of subsequent image processing techniques, including image segmentation, object-based image coding, and image retrieval. A color image edge detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. Average maximum color difference value is used to predict the optimum threshold value for a color image and thinning technique is applied to extract proper edges. The proposed method is applied over large database of color images both synthetic and real life images and performance of the algorithm is evident from the results and is comparable with other edge detection algorithms.
The Connected TV can be described as an Internet enabled TV. In the current paper we have proposed a system for connected TV that mash up the information from internet and RSS feeds related to the breaking news aired ...
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The Connected TV can be described as an Internet enabled TV. In the current paper we have proposed a system for connected TV that mash up the information from internet and RSS feeds related to the breaking news aired over the TV. The proposed system initially localize the text regions from the streamed video in hybrid mode, then recognize them and spot the key words and finally fetch the related information from Internet. Our experimental results show that the localization of the text regions from the video can work with no misses but have some false positives which are taken care by data semantic analysis. The errors of the Optical Character recognition (OCR) module are taken care by using string comparing techniques like longest common subsequence matching and Leveinsthein distance while matching with the RSS feed or internet.
Though designing of classifies for Indic script handwriting recognition has been researched with enough attention, use of language model has so far received little exposure. This paper attempts to develop a weighted f...
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Though designing of classifies for Indic script handwriting recognition has been researched with enough attention, use of language model has so far received little exposure. This paper attempts to develop a weighted finite-state transducer (WFST) based language model for improving the current recognition accuracy. Both the recognition hypothesis (i.e. the segmentation lattice) and the lexicon are modeled as two WFSTs. Concatenation of these two FSTs accept a valid word(s) which is (are) present in the recognition lattice. A third FST called error FST is also introduced to retrieve certain words which were missing in the previous concatenation operation. The proposed model has been tested for online Bangla handwriting recognition though the underlying principle can equally be applied for recognition of offline or printed words. Experiment on a part of ISI-Bangla handwriting database shows that while the present classifiers (without using any language model) can recognize about 73% word, use of recognition and lexicon FSTs improve this result by about 9% giving an average word-level accuracy of 82%. Introduction of error FST further improves this accuracy to 93%. This remarkable improvement in word recognition accuracy by using FST-based language model would serve as a significant revelation for the research in handwriting recognition, in general and Indic script handwriting recognition, in particular.
In the field of information security, biometric systems play an important role. Within biometrics, automatic signature identification and verification has been a strong research area because of the social and legal ac...
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In the field of information security, biometric systems play an important role. Within biometrics, automatic signature identification and verification has been a strong research area because of the social and legal acceptance and extensive use of the written signature as an individual authentication. Signature verification is a process in which the questioned signature is examined in detail in order to determine whether it belongs to the claimed person or not. Despite substantial research in the field of signature verification involving Western signatures, very few works have been dedicated to non-Western signatures such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, or Persian etc. In this paper, the performance of an off-line signature verification system involving Bangla signatures, whose style is distinct from Western scripts, was investigated. The Gaussian Grid feature extraction technique was employed for feature extraction and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) were considered for classification. The Bangla signature database employed in the experiments consisted of 3000 forgeries and 2400 genuine signatures. An encouraging accuracy of 90.4% was obtained from the experiments.
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