Document Image Analysis Journal Articles

"Nonlinear Global and Local Document Degradation Models", (with T. Kanungo and I.T. Phillips),International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol. 5, 1994, pp. 220-230.
"Extraction of Text Lines and Text Blocks on Document Images Based on Statistical Modeling", (with Su Chen and Ihsin Phillips), International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol 7, 1996, pp. 343-356.
"Extraction of Text Words In Document Images Based On A Statistical Characterization", (with Su Chen and Ihsin Phillips), Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 5, 1996, pp. 24-34.
"A Segmentation Free Approach to Text Recognition with Application to Arabic Text" (with Badr Al Badr) International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1998, pp. 147-166.
"An Automatic Closed Loop Methodology for Generating Character Groundtruth for Scanned Documents", (with Tapas Kanungo) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 2, February 1999, pp. 179-183.
"Consistent Partition and Labeling of Text Blocks", (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips), Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol 3, No. 2, 2000, pp. 196-208.
"Performance Evaluation of Document Structure Extraction Algorithms", (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol 84, 2001, pp. 144-159.
"An Optimization Methodology For Document Image Structures Extraction on Latin Character Documents", (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 23, July 2001, pp. 719-734.
Table Structure Understanding and Its Performance Evaluation", (with Yalin Wang, Ihsin T. Phillips), Pattern Recognition, Volume 37, No. 7, July 2004, pp. 1479-1497.
Document Zone Content Classification and Its Performance Evaluation", (with Y. Wang, I.T. Phillips), Pattern Recognition, Vol 39, Number 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 57-73.

Document Image Analysis Conference Articles

"Music Score Recognition Using Mathematical Morphology", (with B.R. Modayur), Fifth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, S. Dakota, March, 1991.
"On Printed Music Score Symbol Recognition", (with B.R. Modayur and L.G. Shapiro), Proceedings, Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV, March 16--18, 1992.
"Recognition Without Segmentation: Using Mathematical Morphology to Recognize Printed Arabic", (with B. Al-Badr),Proceedings 13th National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November, 1992, pp. 813--829.
"English Document Database Design and Implementation Methodology", (with I.T. Phillips, S. Chen, and J. Ha), Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV, April 26--28, 1993, pp. 65-104.
"Implementation Methodology and Error Analysis for the CD-ROM English Document Database", (with I.T. Phillips, J. Ha, and S. Chen), Proceedings of the 1993 AIPR Workshop, Washington, DC, October 13--15, 1993.
"A Methodology for the Characterization of the Performance of Thinning Algorithms", (with M.Y. Jaisimha and D. Dori), International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba Japan, October 20--22, 1993, pp. 282-286.
"CD-ROM Document Database Standard", (with I.T. Phillips and S. Chen), International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba Japan, October 20--22, 1993, pp. 478-483.
"The Implementation Methodology for a CD-ROM English Document Database", (with I.T. Phillips, J. Ha, and D. Dori), International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, October 20--22, 1993, pp. 484-487.
"Radiographs as Medical Documents: Automating Standard Measurements", (with D. Dori, A.I. Harris, and G. Gambach), International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, October 20--22, 1993, pp. 553-556.
"Global and Local Document Degradation Models", (with T. Kanungo and I. Phillips), International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, October 20--22, 1993, pp. 730-734.
"Symbol Recognition Without Prior Segmentation", (with B. Al-Badr), Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology: Document Recognition, San Jose, CA, February, 1994, Vol. 2181, pp. 303-314.
"Performance Evaluation of Two OCR Systems", (with S. Chen, S. Subramaniam, and I.T. Phillips), Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, April 11--13, 1994, pp. 299-317.
"Estimating Errors in Document Databases", (with J. Ha, S. Chen, and I.T. Phillips), Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, April 11--13, 1994, pp. 435-459.
"Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Thinning Algorithms in the Presence of Noise", (with M.Y. Jaisimha and D. Dori), Aspects of Visual Form Processing, 2nd International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF2), Capri, Italy, May 30--June 2, 1994, C. Arcelli, L.P. Cordella, and G.S. di~Baja (eds), Singapore: World Scientific, 1994, pp. 261-286.
"Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Thinning Algorithms under Noisy Conditions", CVPR94: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, June 21--23, 1994, pp. 678--683.
"Document Image Understanding: Geometric and Logical Layout", CVPR94: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, June 21--23, 1994, pp. 385-390.
"An Automatic Algorithm for Text Skew Estimation in Document Images Using Recursive Morphological Transforms", (with S. Chen), Proceedings, ICIP-94: 1994 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, TX, November 13--16, 1994, Vol. I, pp. 139-143.
"Extraction of Text Layout Structures on Document Images Based on Statistical Characterization", (with S. Chen and I.T. Phillips), IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, Proceedings, Document Recognition II, San Jose, CA, February 6--7, 1995, pp. 128--139.
"Document Page Decomposition Using Bounding Boxes of Connected Components of Black Pixels", (with J. Ha and I.T. Phillips), IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, Proceedings, Document Recognition II, San Jose, CA, February 6--7, 1995, pp. 140--151.
"Document Degradation Models: Parameter Estimation and Model Validation", (with T. Kanungo, H. S. Baird, W. Stutzle, and D. Madigan), Proc. of IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision and Applications, Kawasaki, Japan, 1994, pp. 552-557
"Estimation of Morphological Degradation Parameters", (with T. Kanungo) Proc. SPIE Conference on Nonlinear Imaging, San Jose, CA, Vol. 2424, February , 1995, pp. 86-95.
"A Benchmark: Performance evaluation of Dashed-Line Detection Algorithms", (with Bin Kong, Ihsin Phillips, Arathi Prasad, Rangachar Kasturi), GREC 1995, pp. 270-285.
"Automatic Line Detection in Document Images Using Recursive Morphological Transforms", (with B. Kong, S. Chen, and I.T. Phillips), IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, Proceedings, Document Recognition II, San Jose, CA, February 6--7, 1995, pp. 163-174.
"Validation and Estimation of Document Degradation Models", (with T. Kanungo, and H. Baird), Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 24-26, 1995, pp. 217-228.
"Perfect Document Layout Ground Truth Generation Using DVI Files and Simultaneous Word Segmentation From Document Images", (with S. Chen and I. Phillips), Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 24-26, 1995, pp. 229-247.
"Understanding Engineering Drawings: A Survey", (with T. Kanungo and D. Dori), IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, University Park, PA, August 10--11, 1995, pp. 119-130.
"Segmentation-Free Word Recognition with Application to Arabic", (with B. Al-Badr), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol.~I, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 355--359.
"Recursive Logical Document Structure Description Using Textons: a Generic Object-Process Analysis", (with D. Dori and I. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol. II, August 14--16, 1995, p. 540 (paper not received in time for publication).
"Zone Classification in a Document Using the Method of Feature Vector Generation", (with R. Sivaramakrishnan, I.T. Phillips, J. Ha, and S. Subramanium), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol. II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 541-544.
"Power Functions and Their Use in Selecting Distance Functions for Document Degradation Model Validation", (with T. Kanungo and H.S. Baird), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol.~II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 734-739.
"Simultaneous Word Segmentation from Document Images Using Recursive Morphological Closing Transform", (with S. Chen and I.T. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol. II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 761-764.
"Recursive X-Y Cut Using Bounding Boxes of Connected Components", (with Jaekyu. Ha and I.T. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol.~II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 952--955.
"Understanding Mathematical Expressions from Document Images", (with Jaekyu. Ha and I.T. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol.~II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 956-959.
"Document Page Decomposition by the Bounding-Box Projection Technique", (with J. Ha and I.T. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol.~II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 1119--1122.
"Automatic Text Skew Estimation in Document Images", (with S. Chen and I.T. Phillips), ICDAR'95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, Vol. II, August 14--16, 1995, pp. 1153--1156.
"Reconstruction of CAD Objects from Engineering Drawings: A Survey", (with T. Kanungo, and D. Dori) Proc. of First IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, University Park, PA, 1995, pp. 217-228.
"Document Image Restoration Using Binary Morphological Filters", (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips), Document Recognition III}, SPIE '96, San Jose CA, Jan. 1996, pp. 274-285.
"Document Zone Classification Using Sizes of Connected Components", (with Jisheng Liang, Jaekyu Ha, and Ihsin Phillips), Document Recognition III, SPIE '96, San Jose CA, Jan. 1996, pp. 150-157.
"The Prototype of A Document Image Understanding System", (with Jisheng Liang, Richard Rogers, and Ihsin Phillips ), IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Malvern PA, Oct. 1996, pp. 131-154.
"Document Layout Structure Extraction Using Bounding Boxes of Different Entities", (with Jisheng Liang, Jaekyu. Ha, and Ihsin Phillips), 3rd IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Dec. 1996, pp. 278-283.
"Automatic Generation of Character Groundtruth for Scanned Documents: A Closed-Loop Approach", (with Tapas Kanungo), ICPR-96, Vol. 3, August 25-29, Vienna, Austria, 1996, pp. 669-675.
"Zone Classification Using Texture Features", (with Dmitry Chetverikov, Jisheng Liang, and Jozsef Komuves), IAPR-96, Vol. 3, August 25-29, Vienna, Austria, 1996, pp. 676-680.
"Performance Evaluation of Document Layout Analysis Algorithms on the UW-III Data Set", (with Jisheng Liang and I.T. Phillips), Document Recognition IV, SPIE '97, San Jose CA, 1997, pp. 149-160.
"The ISL Document Image Analysis Toolbox", (with Richard Rogers, Jisheng Liang, and Ihsin Phillips), Proceedings of the Workshop on Document Image Analysis, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 20, 1997.
"A Performance Evaluation Protocol for Engineering-drawing Recognition Systems", (with Ihsin Phillips and Jisheng Liang), Proceedings of the Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Nancy France, August 22-23, 1997, pp. 333-346.
"A Performance evaluation Protocol for Graphics Recognition Systems", (with Ihsin Phillips, Jisheng Liang, Atul Chhabra), GREC, 1997, pp. 372-389.
"UW-ISL Document Image Analysis Toolbox: An Experimental Environment", (with Jisheng Liang, Richard Rogers, and Ihsin Phillips), Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm, Germany, August 18-20, 1997, pp. 984-988.
"Model-Based Shape Recognition Using Recursive Mathematical Morphology", (with Michael Schauf and Selim Aksoy), 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 16-20, Brisbane Australia, 1998, pp. 202-204.
"A Unified Approach For Document Structure Analysis and Its Application to Text-line Extraction",'' (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips), Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology (SDIUT99), College Park MD, April 1999, pp. 32-42.
"Performance Evaluation of Document Image Algorithms", Graphics Recognition Recent Advances (GREC), 1999, pp. 315-323.
"From Image To SGML/XML Representation: One Method", International Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and Its Applications (DLIA 99), India, September 1999.
"A Statistically Based, Highly Accurate Text-line Segmentation Method", (with Jisheng Liang and Ihsin Phillips, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 99), Bangelore India, September 1999, pp. 551-554.
"A Methodology for Special Symbol Recognitions", (with Jisheng Liang, Ihsin Phillips, Vikram Chalana), International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona Spain, September 3-7,2000, Vol 4, pp. 11-14.
"Statistical-based Approach to Word Segmentation", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona Spain, September 3-7,2000, Vol 4, pp. 555-558.
"Improvement of Zone Content Classification By Using Background Analysis", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), Fourth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2000), Rio DeJanerio, December 2000.
"Using Area Voronoi Tessellation To Segment Characters Connected To Graphics", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips) Fourth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2001), Kingston Ontario Canada September 2001 pp. 1-7.
"Automatic Table Ground Truth Generation and A Background-analysis Based Table Structure Extraction Method", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2001), Seattle WA, September 10-12, 2001, pp. 528-532.
"Zone Content Classification and Its Performance Evaluation", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2001), Seattle WA, September 10-12, 2001, pp. 540-544.
"Random Table and Its Ground Truth Automatic Generation: A Tool For Table Understanding Research", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), International Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and Its Applications (DLIA 2001), Seattle, WA September 2001.
"Table Detection Via Probability Optimization", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), Fifth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, August 2002, pp. 272-282.
"Document Zone Content Classification Using Decision Tree and HMM", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.
"A Study On The Document Zone Content Classification Problem", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), Fifth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, August 2002, pp. 212-223.
"A Method for Document Zone Content Classification", (with Yalin Wang and Ihsin Phillips), 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Volume 3, Quebec City, Canada Aug 2002, pp. 196-199.