Methods for fast morphological image transforms using bitmapped binary images
CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing
Thinning Methodologies-A Comprehensive Survey
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Empirical Performance Evaluation of Graphics Recognition Systems
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Digital Image Processing
Persian cursive script recognition
ICDAR '95 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Volume 2) - Volume 2
A Hough based algorithm for extracting text lines in handwritten documents
ICDAR '95 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Volume 2) - Volume 2
Arabic Hand-Written Text-Line Extraction
ICDAR '01 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Segmentation of Bangla Unconstrained Handwritten Text
ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
Line Separation for Complex Document Images Using Fuzzy Runlength
DIAL '04 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL'04)
A Scale Space Approach for Automatically Segmenting Words from Historical Handwritten Documents
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Text line segmentation of historical documents: a survey
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
Text Line Segmentation of Historical Arabic Documents
ICDAR '07 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 01
Handwriting Segmentation Contest
ICDAR '07 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 02
Script-Independent Text Line Segmentation in Freestyle Handwritten Documents
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Text line detection in handwritten documents
Pattern Recognition
Handwritten document image segmentation into text lines and words
Pattern Recognition
A Variational Bayes Method for Handwritten Text Line Segmentation
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Script-Independent Handwritten Textlines Segmentation Using Active Contours
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Segmentation Contest
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A Self-Training Learning Document Binarization Framework
ICPR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Text line segmentation for gray scale historical document images
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
Handwriting Recognition in Indian Regional Scripts: A Survey of Offline Techniques
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Text line extraction for historical document images
Pattern Recognition Letters
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Variations in inter-line gaps and skewed or curled text-lines are some of the challenging issues in segmentation of handwritten text-lines. Moreover, overlapping and touching text-lines that frequently appear in unconstrained handwritten text documents significantly increase segmentation complexities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for unconstrained handwritten text-line segmentation. A new painting technique is employed to smear the foreground portion of the document image. The painting technique enhances the separability between the foreground and background portions enabling easy detection of text-lines. A dilation operation is employed on the foreground portion of the painted image to obtain a single component for each text-line. Thinning of the background portion of the dilated image and subsequently some trimming operations are performed to obtain a number of separating lines, called candidate line separators. By using the starting and ending points of the candidate line separators and analyzing the distances among them, related candidate line separators are connected to obtain segmented text-lines. Furthermore, the problems of overlapping and touching components are addressed using some novel techniques. We tested the proposed scheme on text-pages of English, French, German, Greek, Persian, Oriya and Bangla and remarkable results were obtained.