A survey of document image word spotting techniques

AP Giotis, G Sfikas, B Gatos, C Nikou - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Vast collections of documents available in image format need to be indexed for information
retrieval purposes. In this framework, word spotting is an alternative solution to optical …

Word spotting and recognition with embedded attributes

J Almazán, A Gordo, A Fornés… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problems of word spotting and word recognition on images. In
word spotting, the goal is to find all instances of a query word in a dataset of images. In …

Supervised mid-level features for word image representation

A Gordo - Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper addresses the problem of learning word image representations: given the
cropped image of a word, we are interested in finding a descriptive, robust, and compact …

Label embedding: A frugal baseline for text recognition

JA Rodriguez-Serrano, A Gordo… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
The standard approach to recognizing text in images consists in first classifying local image
regions into candidate characters and then combining them with high-level word models …

A review of deep learning techniques in document image word spotting

L Kumari, A Sharma - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
From the early days of pattern recognition, word spotting have been important test beds for
studying how well machines can perform better decision making. In recent years, word …

Matching handwritten document images

P Krishnan, CV Jawahar - Computer Vision–ECCV 2016: 14th European …, 2016 - Springer
We address the problem of predicting similarity between a pair of handwritten document
images written by potentially different individuals. This has applications related to matching …

A simple and fast word spotting method

A Kovalchuk, L Wolf… - 2014 14th international …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple and efficient pipeline for word spotting in handwritten documents is proposed. The
method allows for extremely rapid querying, while still maintaining high accuracy. The …

Coarse-to-fine cascade adaptations for license plate recognition with convolutional neural networks

AG Soldevila, J Almazan - US Patent 9,785,855, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for license plate recognition utilizing a trained neural network. In an
example embodiment, a neural network can be subject to operations involving iteratively …

A study of bag-of-visual-words representations for handwritten keyword spotting

D Aldavert, M Rusiñol, R Toledo, J Lladós - International Journal on …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) framework has gained popularity among the
document image analysis community, specifically as a representation of handwritten words …

ICFHR 2014 competition on handwritten keyword spotting (H-KWS 2014)

I Pratikakis, K Zagoris, B Gatos… - … on Frontiers in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H-KWS 2014 is the Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition organized in conjunction
with ICFHR 2014 conference. The main objective of the competition is to record current …