Feature space denoising improves word spotting

Authors:
Fredrik Wahlberg;Anders Brun
Affiliations:
Uppsala University;Uppsala University
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Some of the sliding window features commonly used in off-line handwritten text recognition are inherently noisy or sensitive to image noise. In this paper, we investigate the effects of several de-noising filters applied in the feature space and not in the image domain. The purpose is to target the intrinsic noise of these features, stemming from the complex shapes of handwritten characters. This noise is present even if the image has been captured without any kind of artefacts or noise. An evaluation, using a public database, is presented showing that the recognition of word-spotting can be improved considerably by using de-noising filters in the feature space.