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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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repository: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/134140 |
| Online Access: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/134140 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Handwritten text processing Keyword spotting Multi-word Boolean queries Image processing Pattern recognition LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA |
| Summary: | [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. |
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