Aligning transcript of historical documents using energy minimization

Rafi Cohen, Irina Rabaev, Jihad El-Sana, Klara Kedem, Itshak Dinstein

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Abstract

An ongoing considerable effort for digitizing historical manuscripts has produced images of original manuscripts, some accompanied by transcripts. Aligning the text in the input image with the text in the transcript will allow learning, training and evaluating recognition algorithms. Here we propose a system that computes the alignment by formulating the problem as an energy minimization task, where the alignment is performed between the input line image to a synthetic one. The energy function works at a connected component level and it combines a visual similarity measure and a learned distance metric that separates between inter-word and intra-word connected components.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2015 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages266-270
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479918058
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Nov 2015
Event13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2015 - Nancy, France
Duration: 23 Aug 201526 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Volume2015-November
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNancy
Period23/08/1526/08/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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