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A Proposition of a Robust System for Historical Document Images Indexation

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International Journal of Computer Applications
© 2010 by IJCA Journal
Number 2 - Article 3
Year of Publication: 2010
Authors:
Nizar Zaghden
Remy Mullot
Slim Kanoun
Adel M Alimi
10.5120/1556-2076

Nizar Zaghden, Remy Mullot, Slim Kanoun and Adel M Alimi. Article:A Proposition of a Robust System for Historical Document Images Indexation. International Journal of Computer Applications 11(2):10–15, December 2010. Published By Foundation of Computer Science. BibTeX

@article{key:article,
	author = {Nizar Zaghden and Remy Mullot and Slim Kanoun and Adel M Alimi},
	title = {Article:A Proposition of a Robust System for Historical Document Images Indexation},
	journal = {International Journal of Computer Applications},
	year = {2010},
	volume = {11},
	number = {2},
	pages = {10--15},
	month = {December},
	note = {Published By Foundation of Computer Science}
}

Abstract

Characterizing noisy or ancient documents is a challenging problem up to now. Many techniques have been done in order to effectuate feature extraction and image indexation for such documents. Global approaches are in general less robust and exact than local approaches. That’s why, we propose in this paper, a hybrid system based on global approach (fractal dimension), and a local one, based on SIFT descriptor. The Scale Invariant Feature Transform seems to do well with our application since it is rotation invariant and relatively robust to changing illumination. In the first step the calculation of fractal dimension is applied to images, in order to eliminate images which have distant features than image request characteristics. Next, the SIFT is applied to show which images match well the request. However, the average matching time using the hybrid approach is better than “fractal dimension” and “SIFT descriptor” techniques, if they are used alone.

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