Libraries and other institutions are interested in providing access to scanned versions of their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts on electronic media. Convenient access to a collection requires an index, which is manually created at great labor and expense. Since current handwriting recognizers do not perform well on historical documents, a technique called word spotting has been developed: clusters with occurrences of the same word in a collection are established using image matching. By annotating "interesting" clusters, an index can be built automatically. We present an algorithm for matching handwritten words in noisy historical documents. The segmented word images are preprocessed to create sets of 1-dimensional features, which are then compared using dynamic time warping. We present experimental results on two different data sets from the George Washington collection. Our experiments show that this algorithm performs better and is faster than competing matching techniques.


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    Title :

    Word image matching using dynamic time warping


    Contributors:
    Rath, T.M. (author) / Manmatha, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    459388 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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