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Glyph spotting for mediaeval handwritings by template matching

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Jan-Hendrik Worch,

Mathias Lawo,

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DocEng '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Document engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2361354.2361401

Published: 04 September 2012 Publication History

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This paper reports on the analysis of different approaches in order to search for glyphs within handwritten mediaeval documents. As layout analysis methods are difficult to apply to the documents at hand, template matching methods are employed. A number of different shape descriptions are used to filter out false positives, since the application of correlation coefficients alone results in too many matches. The overall goal consists in the interactive support of an editor who is transcribing a given handwriting. For this purpose, the automatic spotting of glyphs enables the editor to compare glyphs within different contexts.

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Glyph spotting for mediaeval handwritings by template matching
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision representations
        Shape representations

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DocEng '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Document engineering

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ISBN:9781450311168

DOI:10.1145/2361354

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