Detect handwritten words in a text-line (classic image processing method).

Overview

Word segmentation

Implementation of scale space technique for word segmentation as proposed by R. Manmatha and N. Srimal. Even though the paper is from 1999, the method still achieves good results, is fast, and is easy to implement. The algorithm takes an image of a line as input and outputs the segmented words.

example

Run demo

Go to the src/ directory and run the script python main.py. The images from the data/ directory (taken from IAM dataset) are segmented into words and the results are saved to the out/ directory.

Documentation

An anisotropic filter kernel is applied to the input image to create blobs corresponding to words. After thresholding the blob-image, connected components are extracted which correspond to words.

Parameters

Most of the parameters of the function wordSegmentation deal with the shape of the filter kernel:

  • img: grayscale uint8 image of the text-line to be segmented.
  • kernelSize: size of filter kernel, must be an odd integer.
  • sigma: standard deviation of Gaussian function used for filter kernel.
  • theta: approximated width/height ratio of words, filter function is distorted by this factor.
  • minArea: ignore word candidates smaller than specified area.

The function prepareImg can be used to convert the input image to grayscale and to resize it to a fixed height:

  • img: input image.
  • height: image will be resized to fit specified height.

Algorithm

The illustration below shows how the algorithm works:

  • top left: input image.
  • top right: filter kernel is applied.
  • bottom left: blob image after thresholding.
  • bottom right: bounding boxes around words in original image.

illustration

Results

This algorithm gives good results on datasets with large inter-word-distances and small intra-word-distances like IAM. However, for historical datasets like Bentham or Ratsprotokolle results are not very good and more complex approaches should be used instead (e.g., a neural network based approach as implemented in the WordDetectorNN repository).

Owner
Harald Scheidl
Interested in computer vision, deep learning, C++ and Python.
Harald Scheidl
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