Word Spotting as a Service: An Unsupervised and Segmentation-Free Framework for Handwritten Documents

Autor: Konstantinos Zagoris, Angelos Amanatiadis, Ioannis Pratikakis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Zdroj: Journal of Imaging, Vol 7, Iss 12, p 278 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2313-433X
DOI: 10.3390/jimaging7120278
Popis: Word spotting strategies employed in historical handwritten documents face many challenges due to variation in the writing style and intense degradation. In this paper, a new method that permits efficient and effective word spotting in handwritten documents is presented that relies upon document-oriented local features that take into account information around representative keypoints and a matching process that incorporates a spatial context in a local proximity search without using any training data. The method relies on a document-oriented keypoint and feature extraction, along with a fast feature matching method. This enables the corresponding methodological pipeline to be both effectively and efficiently employed in the cloud so that word spotting can be realised as a service in modern mobile devices. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method in terms of its matching accuracy, along with its fast retrieval time, respectively, are shown after a consistent evaluation of several historical handwritten datasets.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals