dh101 2013/2014 course 7 - ocr, printed text recognition, handwriting recognition, ornaments...

Digital Humanities 101 - 2013/2014 - Course 7

Digital Humanities Laboratory

Andrea Mazzei and Frederic Kaplan

andrea.mazzei,[email protected]

A Job offer

•Running an OCR transcription of 320 pages

•about 60 hours of work

•25 CHF / hour.

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Digital Humanities 101 - 2013/2014 - Course 7 | 2013 2o

Results of the peer grading process

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New projects

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Venitian opera staging andmachinery

•A project that find way for better understanding and visualizing opera staging

based on evidences found in historical sources (treatise, music prints, etc.)

•Rosand, E. 1990. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice : The Creation of a Genre.

Berkeley : University of California Press.

•Bjurstrom, P. 1962. Giacomo Torelli and Baroque Stage Design. Stockholm :

Almqvist and Wiksell.

•Leclerc, H. 1987. Venise et l’avenement de l’opora public A l’age baroque. Paris :

A. Colin.

•Larson, O. K. 1980. Giacomo Torelli, Sir Philip Skippon, and Stage Machinery for

the Venetian Opera, Theatre Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 448-457.

www.jstor.org/stable/3207407

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www.jstor.org/stable/3207407

Venetian storytelling in theMiddle-Age

•Marin Sanudo was an historical writer. In contrast to others writer of the

epoch, he wrote a diary noting all the events happend in Venice. Of

course it is not the only one diary wrote in Venice. Imagine how to use

this personal information.

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Looking at music printing typefaces

•A project that looks at the different music typefaces used in Venetian

prints. Typical questions are : the size of the typeface, when they were

used, for what repertoire, what printers used them, etc.

•Agee, R. 1998. The Gardano Music Printing Firms, 1569-1611.

Rochester, University of Rochester Press.

•Bernstein, J. 1998. Music Printing in Renaissance Venice. The Scotto

Press (1539-1572). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

•Bernstein, J. 2001. Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice.

Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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Music at SanMarco

•A project that can look at how the capella di San Marco evolved over

time : how many musicians, where they played in the Basilica, what they

played, etc.

•Selfridge-Field, E. 1994. Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to

Vivaldi. New York : Dover.

•Moretti, L. 2004. Jacopo Sansovino and Adrian Willaert at St Mark’s,

Early Music History, Vol. 23, pp. 153-184.

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Venetianmusic prints in libraries today

•A project that looks at the production of music prints in Venice and

where they are hold today in libraries and archives around the world

•The Repertoire International des Source Musicales, Series A/I on music

prints. http ://www.rism.info [will be made available digitally for the

project]

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Semester 1 : Content of each course

• (1) 19.09 Introduction to the course / Live Tweeting and Collective note

taking

• (2) 25.09 Introduction to Digital Humanities / Wordpress / First assignment

• (3) 2.10 Introduction to the Venice Time Machine project / Zotero

•9.10 No course

• (4) 16.10 Digitization techniques / Deadline first assignment

• (5) 23.10 Datafication / Presentation of projects

• (6) 30.10 Semantic modelling / RDF / Deadline peer-reviewing of first

assignment

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Semester 1 : Content of each course

• (7) 6.11 Pattern recognition / OCR / Semantic disambiguation

• (8) 13.11 Historical Geographical Information Systems, Procedural modelling

/ City Engine / Deadline Project selection

• (9) 20.11 Crowdsourcing / Wikipedia / OpenStreetMap

• (10) 27.11 Cultural heritage interfaces and visualisation / Museographic

experiences

•4.12 Group work on the projects

•11.12 Oral exam / Presentation of projects / Deadline Project blog

•18.12 Oral exam / Presentation of projects

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Today’s course

•Printed Text Recognition

•Hand Writing Recognition

•Ornament Recognition

•Text Mining and semantic disambiguation : Extracting named entities

(people, places, etc.) in a text using Wikipedia

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Part I : Printed Text Recognition

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OCR : Optical Character Recognition

A system that provides a full recognition of all the printed characters by

simply scanning the support.

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Mori et al. (1992). Historical review of OCR R&D

•1940 : The first version of OCR

•1950 : The first OCR machines appear

•1960 - 1965 : First generation OCR : NOF, Farrington 360, IBM 1418.

They all used a special font

•1965 - 1975 : Second generation OCR : IBM 1287, NEC, Toshiba. They

could also recognize constrained hand-printed alpha-numerals.

•1975 - 1985 : Third generation OCR : IBM 1975, Poor print quality or

handwritten characters. 275 fonts. Handwriting recognition.

•1986 - Today : OCR to the people

Eikvil, L. (1993). Optical Character Recognition

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OCR capabilities

The recognition performance depends on the type and number of fonts

recognized.

•Fixed font : the sytem can recognize only one font

•Multi font : the system can recognize multiple fonts

•Omni font : the system can recognize most nonstylized fonts without

having to maintain huge databases of specific font information

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Omni-font OCR Overview Of Processing

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Preprocessing : Text Lines Straightening

Zhang, Z., & Tan, C. L. (2002, June). Straightening warped text lines using polynomial regression. In Image Processing. 2002.Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on (Vol. 3, pp. 977-980). IEEE.

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Preprocessing : Character Detection

• Image binarization using local adaptive thresholding

•Character detection using region growing-based methods. PROBLEM !


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Segmentation Problems : Touching and fragmented characters

•Joints will occur if the document is a dark photocopy or if it is scanned

at a low threshold.

•Joints are common if the fonts are serifed.

•The characters may be split if the document stems from a light

photocopy or is scanned at a high threshold

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Segmentation Problems : Distinguishing noise from text

Dots and accents may be mistaken for noise, and vice versa.

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Segmentation Problems : Mistaking graphics for text

This leads to non-text being sent or text not being sent to recognition

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Feature Extraction

From each character several features can be extracted :

•Rasterized pixels

•Geometric moment invariant

•Morphological features

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Feature Extraction : Zoning

MxN zones are computed as average gray level from the image of the

character.

Due Trier, O., Jain, A. K., & Taxt, T. (1996). Feature extraction methods

for character recognition-a survey. Pattern recognition, 29(4), 641-662

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Feature Extraction : Projection Profile

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Feature Extraction : Structural Analysis

Strokes, bays, end-points, intersections between lines and loops.

High tolerance to noise and style variations.

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Classification

The principal approaches to decision-theoretic recognition are minimum

distance classifiers, statistical classifiers and neural networks.

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Matching

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Optimum statistical classifiers.

•Bayesian classifier. Given an unknown symbol described by its feature

vector, the probability that the symbol belongs to the class c is computed

for all classes c = 1...N . The symbol is then assigned the class which

gives the maximum probability.

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Post Processing : Grouping

From symbols to strings using symbols proximity


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Post Processing : Error Detection and Correction

•Use of rules defining the syntax of the word. Ex. In English the k never

appears after the h.

•Use of dictionaries. If the word is not in the dictionary, an error has been

detected, and may be corrected by changing the word into the most

similar word.

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Self-learning

Modern OCR systems enlarge the database of characters when new fonts

are encountered. Character recognition is based on the database previously

built in, which contains the important features related to the characters

which are known already. It is necessary that this database is able to self

expand as more and more new characters are met in order to increase the

recognition ability.

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Handwriting Recognition (HWR)

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Offline HWR : Many difficult problems

•Stroke ordering

•Broken lines

•Merged blobs

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From Offline to Simulated Online

It is not reliable

•What order were the strokes written in ?

•Doubled-up line segments ?

• Ink blobs ?

•Spurious joins between letters ?

•Missing joins ?

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Segmentation : Strokes Extraction

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Segmentation : Segments Fitting

Robustly cut letters into segments

Match multiple segments to detect letters

Easier than matching whole letter

Hutchison L. Handwriting Recognition for Genealogical Records

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Analytical Approach

It treats a word as a collection of simpler sub-units such as characters

•Segmentation of the word into these units

• Identification of the units

•Word-level interpretation using a predefined lexicon

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Problemswith the Analytical Approach

• segmentation ambiguity : deciding where to segment the word image

•variability of segment shape : determining the identity of each segment

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Holistic Matching

Treats the word as a single, indivisible entity and attempts to recognize it

using features of the word as whole.

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Advantages of the Holystic Matching

Coarticulation effect, i.e., the changes in the appearance of a character

as a function of the shapes of neighboring characters

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Orthogonality of holistic features : information about the word that

is clearly orthogonal to the knowledge of characters in it and it stands to

reason that the introduction of this knowledge should improve recognition

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Evidence from psychological studies : psychological studies of

reading points towards the fact that humans do not, in general, read words

letter by letter.

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Dynamic Global Search

Assemble word spelling from possible letter readings

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Result 1

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Result 2

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Result 3

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ABBYY Fine Reader : A Case Study

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Scanned Document

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Image Rotation Adjustment

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First Extraction

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Synthetizing the Table

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Second Extraction

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Retrieval of the ornaments from the Hand-Press Period

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Problem Statement

For millions of intact books and tens of millions of loose pages, the

provenance of the manuscripts may be in doubt or completely unknown

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Manual Solution

Human experts are capable to regain the provenance by examining

linguistic, cultural and/or stylistic clues.

However, such experts are rare and this investigation is a time-consuming

process.

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Automatic Solution

By comparing the initial letters in the manuscript to annotated initial

letters whose origin is known, the provenance can be determined.

This process can be automatized

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What are the Challenges ?

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Ornament Segmentation

Ornament(s) detection and localization with respect to the page reference system.

Baudrier, E., Busson, S., Corsini, S., Delalandre, M., LandrA c©, J., &

Morain-Nicolier, F. (2009, July). Retrieval of the ornaments from the hand-press

period : an overview. In Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009. ICDAR’09. 10th

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A Compression Based DistanceMeasure for Texture

The distance between a window and an annotated initial letter is

denoted as :

distCK 1(W , IL) =mpegSize(W , IL) + mpegSize(IL,W )

mpegSize(W ,W ) + mpegSize(IL, IL)− 1

The first image supplied to mpegSize is assigned as an I frame

and the second becomes a P frame.

Campana, B. J., & Keogh, E. J. (2010). A compression-based

distance measure for texture. Statistical Analysis and Data

Mining, 3(6), 381-398

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Properties of CK1 DistanceMeasure

Efficient, robust and parameter-free texture similarity measure.

Rotation, Colour and Illumination Invariant.

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Gabor Filters

Images are convolved with each filter.

The standard deviation and mean of each response => 48 length vector

Vector Euclidean distance

Wang, X., Ding, X., & Liu, C. (2005). Gabor filters-based feature extraction for

character recognition. Pattern recognition, 38(3), 369-379

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Data Sets

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Experimental Results

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Part II : Text mining and semantic disambiguation

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Case study : Extracting named entities (people, places,etc.) in a text using Wikipedia

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UsingWikipedia

•A Unique ID : A Wikipedia article is identified by a unique name, which is

the article title itself. The respective URL of a Wikipedia article can be

created by concatenating the words in the article title and appending it

to the URL root of the Wikipedia

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UsingWikipedia

•Redirections : Some entities can have multiple names. In order to address

this issue, Wikipedia has some article titles that do not have a

substantive article and are only redirected to a different Wikipedia article

with another title. This mechanism is called redirection. Redirections are

used for other purposes such as spelling resolution (e.g. the article title

Oranges is redirected to Orange) and abbreviation resolution (e.g. the

article title UCLA is redirected to University of California, Los Angeles).

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UsingWikipedia

•Disambiguation pages : A disambiguation page is created for ambiguous

entity names and it enumerates all the possible articles for that name. For

example, the disambiguation page for Paris enumerates 25 places called

Paris (in America, Canada and Europe), 33 people having Paris as name

or surname, 10 television series and films, whose title contains the word

Paris, etc.

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UsingWikipedia

•Outgoing links : In the body text of the Wikipedia article there are

references (links) to other articles. The references are within pairs of

double square brackets.

• Infobox : An infobox is a fixed-format table designed to be added to the

top right-hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of

some unifying aspect that the articles share and sometimes to improve

navigation to other interrelated articles.

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3 steps

•Data extraction : A (sequence of) word(s) is extracted from a ”Le

Temps” article (e.g. Le Paris). Set the right boundaries in the extracted

data (e.g. from ”Le Paris” is retrieved the ”Paris” ).

•Disambiguation : Retrieve all the Wikipedia articles whose title contains

the word ”Paris” (e.g. Paris (France), Paris (Texas), Paris Hilton, Paris

(mythology), etc). Find the Wikipedia article that maximizes the

agreement between the content extracted from Wikipedia and the

context of the ”Le Temps” article.

•Entity classification : Classify the entity as place, person, company, etc,

based on the chosen Wikipedia article

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Disambiguation strategy

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(1) Data extraction

•The first step is the extraction of possible named entities. This step isbased on the fact that the named entities consist of capitalized words.The rules that we apply for the extraction of possible named mentions inthe text are the following :•Retrieve all the capitalized words (e.g. England)

•Retrieve recursively terms T0 of the form T1 Particle T2, where Particle is one of a possessive

pronoun, and the terms T1 and T2 are capitalized words or sequences of capitalized words

(e.g. University of Edinburgh, European Society of Athletic Therapy and Training)

• In French, some entities can contain non-capitalized words, after some specific words.

Therefore, we retrieve non-capitalized words if they are followed by a word that is contained

in a predefined set of words (e.g. Union, Bibliotheque, etc). For example the Union

sovietique is considered as entity.

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(2) Disambiguation

•The disambiguation process employs a vector space model, in which a

vectorial representation of the processed article is compared with the

vectorial representations of the Wikipedia entities.

•The vectorial representation of the processed article (article vector) is a

vector having all the possible entities of the specific article obtained

during the previous step, while the vectorial representation of a Wikipedia

article (Wikipedia vector) is a vector having all the outgoing links in the

body text of the article.

•Once a Wikipedia article is identified as the most similar to the processed

article, the article vector is updated by adopting the features of the

chosen Wikipedia vector.

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(3) Entity classification

•The last step is to classify the entities into persons, places, companies,

etc.

•Ex : It the entity a place ? If the Wikipedia article contains an infobox,

then we retrieve it and we search for specific tags in it that can classify

the entity as a place.

• If the Wikipedia article does not have an infobox, then we use the first

sentence of the body text.

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Partial results

•We have implemented the algorithm and tested it on a subset of the

database

•Our current estimation of the number of entity retrieved is 85 %

•Main issue : Some entites are not in Wikipedia.

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FromWikipedia toWikipast

•The First principle of Wikipedia is that it is an encyclopedia. Not all

entites are allowed. Sourcing is important but secondary

•On going discussion with Wikimedia to create an alternative to

Wikipedia, allowing page on any person, place, etc. from the past as long

at it is clearly sourced.

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