Neural Word Search in Historical Manuscript Collections

1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2018 • Tomas Wilkinson, Jonas Lindström, Anders Brun

This is commonly referred to as "word spotting".

PDNet: Semantic Segmentation integrated with a Primal-Dual Network for Document binarization

1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2018 • Kalyan Ram Ayyalasomayajula, Filip Malmberg, Anders Brun

Binarization of digital documents is the task of classifying each pixel in an image of the document as belonging to the background (parchment/paper) or foreground (text/ink).

Binarization Semantic Segmentation

Neural Ctrl-F: Segmentation-free Query-by-String Word Spotting in Handwritten Manuscript Collections

1 code implementation • ICCV 2017 • Tomas Wilkinson, Jonas Lindström, Anders Brun

One interesting real-life application of our approach is to help historians to find and count specific words in court records that are related to women's sustenance activities and division of labor.

Segmentation