Probabilistic multi-word spotting in handwritten text images

[EN] Keyword spotting techniques are becoming cost-effective solutions for information retrieval in handwritten documents. We explore the extension of the single-word, line-level probabilistic indexing approach described in our previous works to allow for page-level search of queries consisting in B...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Toselli, Alejandro Héctor|||0000-0001-6955-9249, Vidal, Enrique|||0000-0003-4579-5196, Puigcerver, Joan, Noya-García, Ernesto
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositório:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/134140
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/134140
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Handwritten text processing
Keyword spotting
Multi-word Boolean queries
Image processing
Pattern recognition
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
Descrição
Resumo:[EN] Keyword spotting techniques are becoming cost-effective solutions for information retrieval in handwritten documents. We explore the extension of the single-word, line-level probabilistic indexing approach described in our previous works to allow for page-level search of queries consisting in Boolean combinations of several single-keywords. We propose heuristic rules to combine the single-word relevance probabilities into probabilistically consistent confidence scores of the multi-word boolean combinations. An empirical study, also presented in this paper, evaluates the search performance of word-pair queries involving AND and OR Boolean operations. Results of this study support the proposed approach and clearly show its effectiveness. Finally, a web-based demonstration system based on the proposed methods is presented.