Offline Writer Identification Using Convolutional Neural Network Activation Features

Christlein V, Bernecker D, Maier A, Angelopoulou E (2015)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2015

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Edited Volumes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

City/Town: Berlin

Book Volume: 9358

Pages Range: 540-552

Conference Proceedings Title: Pattern Recognition

Event location: Aachen

ISBN: 978-3-319-24946-9

URI: https://www5.cs.fau.de/research/areas/computer-vision/writer-identification/offline-writer-identification-using-convolutional-neural-network-activation-features/

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24947-6_45

Abstract

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently become the state-of-the-art tool for large-scale image classification. In this work we propose the use of activation features from CNNs as local descriptors for writer identification. A global descriptor is then formed by means of GMM supervector encoding, which is further improved by normalization with the KL-Kernel. We evaluate our method on two publicly available datasets: the ICDAR 2013 benchmark database and the CVL dataset. While we perform comparably to the state of the art on CVL, our proposed method yields about 0.21 absolute improvement in terms of mAP on the challenging bilingual ICDAR dataset.

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APA:

Christlein, V., Bernecker, D., Maier, A., & Angelopoulou, E. (2015). Offline Writer Identification Using Convolutional Neural Network Activation Features. In Pattern Recognition (pp. 540-552). Aachen: Berlin: Springer International Publishing.

MLA:

Christlein, Vincent, et al. "Offline Writer Identification Using Convolutional Neural Network Activation Features." Proceedings of the German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aachen Berlin: Springer International Publishing, 2015. 540-552.

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