In historical manuscripts, humans can detect handwritten words, lines, and decorations with
lightness even if they do not know the language or the script. Yet for automatic processing …

This chapter is dedicated to the analysis and the interpretation of graphical documents, and
as such, builds upon many of the topics covered in other parts of this handbook. It will …

This article focuses on the specific issue of drop caps image recognition in the context of
cultural heritage preservation. Due to their heterogeneity and their weakly structured …

With the improvement of printing technology since the 15th century, there is a huge amount
of printed documents published and distributed. These documents are degraded by the time …

This paper proposes a new feature extraction technique for indexing and matching historical
images. The complexity of these historical images troubles the existing indexing approaches …

Ces travaux de recherche ont pour ambition de contribuer à la problématique de la
classification d'images de documents. Plus précisément, ces travaux tendent à répondre aux …

This paper proposes a comparison of three classification methods of graphical historical
images. Historical image datasets are becoming bigger and bigger, and the use of classical …

Panoramic image viewing in its common form simulates a comprehensive spatial or
temporal view. The term panorama indicates the concepts of space (or place) and time. The …

Background Art Information for concise explanation for Cite No. 3 & 4, Toshiba, Jun. 27,
2013.* cited by examiner Primary Examiner—Liliana Cerullo (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm …

One of the complex documents in the real world is city maps. In these kinds of maps, text
labels overlap by graphics with having a variety of fonts and styles in different orientations …