Ancient Word Indexing Using Fuzzy Methods

Cláudia S. Ribeiro, João M. Gil, João R. Caldas Pinto, João M. Sousa

2004

Abstract

This paper proposes an optical word indexing system based on fuzzy logic for 17th century printed documents. A pre-processing stage assures only interesting word candidates are considered. The main image-space indexing procedure builds fuzzy membership functions from oriented features extracted using Gabor filter banks. It proceeds by comparing this data with candidate word features and assigning each a similarity value. Results on a significant test set found over 85% of all word occurrences with a false positive rate of less than 20%.

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in Harvard Style

S. Ribeiro C., M. Gil J., R. Caldas Pinto J. and M. Sousa J. (2004). Ancient Word Indexing Using Fuzzy Methods . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-01-5, pages 210-215. DOI: 10.5220/0002685802100215


in Bibtex Style

@conference{pris04,
author={Cláudia S. Ribeiro and João M. Gil and João R. Caldas Pinto and João M. Sousa},
title={Ancient Word Indexing Using Fuzzy Methods},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={210-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002685802100215},
isbn={972-8865-01-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Ancient Word Indexing Using Fuzzy Methods
SN - 972-8865-01-5
AU - S. Ribeiro C.
AU - M. Gil J.
AU - R. Caldas Pinto J.
AU - M. Sousa J.
PY - 2004
SP - 210
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0002685802100215