Handwritten document image segmentation and analysis
Pattern Recognition Letters
New geodesic distance transforms for gray-scale images
Pattern Recognition Letters
A Fast Algorithm for Bottom-Up Document Layout Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Segmentation of page images using the area Voronoi diagram
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on document image understanding and retrieval
The Document Spectrum for Page Layout Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Robust Multifont OCR System from Gray Level Images
ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
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
An Algorithm for Extracting Cursive Text Lines
ICDAR '99 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Line extraction and stroke ordering of text pages
ICDAR '95 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Volume 1) - Volume 1
Arabic Hand-Written Text-Line Extraction
ICDAR '01 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
User-Assisted Archive Document Image Analysis for Digital Library Construction
ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents
DIAL '04 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL'04)
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 search engine for historical manuscript images
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Text Line Segmentation in Handwritten Document Using a Production System
IWFHR '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Text Extraction from Gray Scale Historical Document Images Using Adaptive Local Connectivity Map
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Text line segmentation of historical documents: a survey
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
Seam carving for content-aware image resizing
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers
On-Line Handwritten Text Line Detection Using Dynamic Programming
ICDAR '07 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 01
Script-Independent Text Line Segmentation in Freestyle Handwritten Documents
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Script-Independent Handwritten Textlines Segmentation Using Active Contours
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Handwritten Text Line Segmentation by Shredding Text into its Lines
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Line Segmentation for Degraded Handwritten Historical Documents
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A Steerable Directional Local Profile Technique for Extraction of Handwritten Arabic Text Lines
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
IBM Journal of Research and Development
A new scheme for unconstrained handwritten text-line segmentation
Pattern Recognition
Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving
ICDAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
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In this paper we present a new approach for text line segmentation that works directly on gray-scale document images. Our algorithm constructs distance transform directly on the gray-scale images, which is used to compute two types of seams: medial seams and separating seams. A medial seam is a chain of pixels that crosses the text area of a text line and a separating seam is a path that passes between two consecutive rows. The medial seam determines a text line and the separating seams define the upper and lower boundaries of the text line. The medial and separating seams propagate according to energy maps, which are defined based on the constructed distance transform. We have performed various experimental results on different datasets and received encouraging results.