In document image understanding, public datasets with ground-truth are an important part of scientific work. They are not only helpful for developing new methods, but also provid...
Thomas Strecker, Joost van Beusekom, Sahin Albayra...
The bag of words representation (BoW), which is widely used in information retrieval (IR), represents documents and queries as word lists that do not express anything about context...
In order to preserve our cultural heritage and for automated document processing libraries and national archives have started digitizing historical documents. In the case of degra...
Florian Kleber, Robert Sablatnig, Melanie Gau, Hei...
A crucial preprocessing stage in applications such as OCR is text extraction from mixed-type documents. The present work, in contrast to most until now, successfully faces the pro...
We describe an unsupervised learning algorithm for extracting sparse and locally shift-invariant features. We also devise a principled procedure for learning hierarchies of invari...