Understanding unsupervised deep learning for text line segmentation

A Droby, B Kurar Barakat, R Saabni, R Alaasam… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
We propose an unsupervised feature learning approach for segmenting text lines of
handwritten document images with no labelling effort. Humans can easily group local text …

Unsupervised learning of text line segmentation by differentiating coarse patterns

B Kurar Barakat, A Droby, R Saabni… - Document Analysis and …, 2021 - Springer
Despite recent advances in the field of supervised deep learning for text line segmentation,
unsupervised deep learning solutions are beginning to gain popularity. In this paper, we …

Text line extraction using deep learning and minimal sub seams

A Azran, A Schclar, R Saabni - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accurate text line extraction is a vital prerequisite for efficient and successful text recognition
systems ranging from keywords/phrases searching to complete conversion to text. In many …

[PDF][PDF] A thousand word images are worth a word

BK Barakat, T Lu, A Dooms - 2021 - beratkurar.github.io
2.2 Objectives A lot of literature in handwritten document image analysis have explored
different deep learning models. The researchers now know to achieve baseline results using …