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Robust Stereo Correspondence for Documents by Matching Connected Components of Text-Lines with Dynamic Programming

M. Krämer; M. Z. Afzal; Syed Saqib Bukhari; Faisal Shafait; Thomas Breuel
In: 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-2012), November 11-15, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, IEEE, 2012.

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel method for robust stereo matching on document image pairs. The matching itself is performed using an affine-invariant similarity measurement to compensate for perspective distortions, where affine invariance is achieved by normalization using second-order statistics, to finally allow a simple pixel-wise comparison. To handle the inherent high self-similarity of the page content we apply a dynamic programming approach on text-line pairs. We quantitatively show that the proposed method performs better in comparison to standard approaches using SURF - whether with or without incorporating text-line information.