Outputs (16)

TTS: Hilbert Transform-based Generative Adversarial Network for Tattoo and Scene Text Spotting (2024)
Journal Article
Banerjee, A., Palaiahnakote, S., Antonacopoulos, A., Pal, U., Lu, T., & Canet, J. L. (2024). TTS: Hilbert Transform-based Generative Adversarial Network for Tattoo and Scene Text Spotting. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2024.3378458

Text spotting in natural scenes is of increasing interest and significance due to its critical role in several applications, such as visual question answering, named entity recognition and event rumor detection on social media. One of the newly emerg... Read More about TTS: Hilbert Transform-based Generative Adversarial Network for Tattoo and Scene Text Spotting.

A new deep CNN for 3D text localization in the wild through shadow removal (2023)
Journal Article
Shivakumara, P., Banerjee, A., Nandanwar, L., Pal, U., Antonacopoulos, A., Lu, T., & Blumenstein, M. (2024). A new deep CNN for 3D text localization in the wild through shadow removal. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103863

Text localization in the wild is challenging due to the presence of 2D and 3D texts, the presence of shadows, arbitrary orientated text with non-linear arrangements, varying lighting conditions as well as complex background. This paper proposes the f... Read More about A new deep CNN for 3D text localization in the wild through shadow removal.

Text line segmentation from struck-out handwritten document images (2022)
Journal Article
Shivakumara, P., Jain, T., Pal, U., Surana, N., Antonacopoulos, A., & Lu, T. (2022). Text line segmentation from struck-out handwritten document images. Expert systems with applications, 210, 118266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118266

In the case of freestyle everyday handwritten documents, writing, erasing, striking out, and overwriting are common behaviors of the writers. This not cleanly-written text poses significant challenges for text line segmentation. Accurate text line se... Read More about Text line segmentation from struck-out handwritten document images.

A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video (2021)
Journal Article
Nandanwar, L., Shivakumara, P., Ramachandra, R., Lu, T., Pal, U., Antonacopoulos, A., & Lu, Y. (2021). A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 32(6), 3375-3389. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3110990

With the evolution of electronic devices, such as 3D cameras, addressing the challenges of text localization in 3D video (e.g., for indexing) is increasingly drawing the attention of the multimedia and video processing community. Existing methods foc... Read More about A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video.

Flexible character accuracy measure for reading-order-independent evaluation (2020)
Journal Article
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). Flexible character accuracy measure for reading-order-independent evaluation. Pattern Recognition Letters, 131, 390-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.02.003

The extraction of textual information from scanned document pages is a fundamental stage in any digitisation effort and directly determines the success of the overall document analysis and understanding application scenarios. To evaluate and improve... Read More about Flexible character accuracy measure for reading-order-independent evaluation.

VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections (2019)
Journal Article
Usman, M., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 12(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340936

This article presents VISE, an interface that enables VIsual Search and Exploration across collections of approximately 836,000 museum objects extracted from the websites of the National Museums Scotland and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. VISE p... Read More about VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections.

Efficient and effective OCR engine training (2019)
Journal Article
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2020). Efficient and effective OCR engine training. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 23(1), 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-019-00347-8

We present an efficient and effective approach to train OCR engines using the Aletheia document analysis system. All components required for training are seamlessly integrated into Aletheia: training data preparation, the OCR engine’s training proces... Read More about Efficient and effective OCR engine training.

Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device (2019)
Journal Article
Scholz, M., Almuktar, S., Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device. Environmental Technology, 41(20), 2594-2602. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2019.1575916

Many industries, which are producing sludge in large quantities, depend on sludge dewatering technology to reduce the corresponding water content. A key design parameter for dewatering equipment is the capillary suction time (CST) test, which has, ho... Read More about Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device.

Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, P., Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Qi, J. (2017). Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0973

Due to storage conditions and material’s non-planar shape, geometric distortion of the 2-D content is widely present in scanned document images. Effective geometric restoration of these distorted document images considerably increases character recog... Read More about Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization.

Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable (2016)
Journal Article
Neudecker, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2016). Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable. https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2016.83

This paper provides a rare glimpse into the overall approach for the refinement, i.e. the enrichment of scanned historical newspapers with text and layout recognition, in the Europeana Newspapers project. Within three years, the project processed mor... Read More about Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable.