Word Image Retrieval Using Bag of Visual Words

Authors:
Ravi Shekhar;C. V. Jawahar
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DAS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) based approach to retrieve similar word images from a large database, efficiently and accurately. We show that a text retrieval system can be adapted to build a word image retrieval solution. This helps in achieving scalability. We demonstrate the method on more than 1 Million word images with a sub-second retrieval time. We validate the method on four Indian languages, and report a mean average precision of more than 0.75. We represent the word images as histogram of visual words present in the image. Visual words are quantized representation of local regions, and for this work, SIFT descriptors at interest points are used as feature vectors. To address the lack of spatial structure in the BoVW representation, we re-rank the retrieved list. This significantly improves the performance.