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Master projects with Axel Brink

Handwriting

Available projects

One Master's project is available:

Intelligent preprocessing of handwritten documents

This image was created manually, still, it is not optimal because detail has been lost while some speckles are present.

Computers cannot read scanned handwritten text very well. One of the major problems is that it is hard to automatically determine where the text is. This is caused by irregularities of the paper (illumination, folds, wrinkles, stains, printed lines, shadows near paper edges, tears, decay) and faint pieces of handwriting. These problems impede handwriting recognition as well as forensic and historic writer identification.

The assignment is to make a system that is capable of distinguishing several types of input and separate the text from background, resulting in a clean black-and-white or grayscale image. It should also reject input that it cannot handle. The system should use color information as well as statistics of connected components in the image and maybe other things as well. Some useful building blocks are already available; for example the software created in Bachelor projects. It is required that you like pixels and programming. If you are interested in this project, please discuss the details with me: mail to a.a.brink[at]ai.rug.nl or come to my office at room 136.

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