23.2.6 Mail -- Addresses, Document Analysis

Mori, K.I.[Ken-Ichi], Genchi, H.[Hiroshi], Watanabe, S.[Sadakazu], Katsuragi, S.[Sumio],
Microprogram controlled pattern processing in a handwritten mail reader-sorter,
PR(2), No. 3, September 1970, pp. 175-176.
WWW Version. 0309 BibRef

Rainbow, J.,
Postal Automation: It Can Be Done,
Spectrum(18), No. 3, 1981, pp. 50-57. BibRef 8100

Srihari, S.N., Wang, C.H., Palumbo, P.W., and Hull, J.J.,
Recognizing Address Blocks on Mail Pieces: Specialized Tools and Problem-Solving Architecture,
AIMag(8), No. 4, Winter 1987, pp. 25-40. Application, Mail sorting. An expert system approach to finding the address and reading it. There are many problems such as hand written, other text in the area, and curved surfaces. BibRef 8700

Palumbo, P.W., Srihari, S.N., Soh, J., Sridhar, R., and Demjanenko, V.,
Postal Address Block Location in Real Time,
Computer(25), No. 7, July 1992, pp. 34-42. Hardware and software approach for postal system. BibRef 9207

Wang, C.H.[Ching-Huei], Palumbo, P.W.[Paul W.], and Srihari, S.N.[Sargur N.],
Performance of a System to Locate Address Blocks on Mail Pieces,
AAAI-88(837- ). State University of New York at Buffalo. BibRef 8800

Wang, C.H., Palumbo, P.W., Srihari, S.N.,
Object Recognition in Visually Complex Environments: An Architecture for Locating Address Blocks on Mail Pieces,
ICPR88(I: 365-367).
WWW Version.
IEEE Top Reference. BibRef 8800

Palumbo, P.W., Srihari, S.N.,
Text Parsing Using Spatial Information for Recognizing Addresses in Mail Pieces,
ICPR86(1068-1070). BibRef 8600

Wang, C.H., and Srihari, S.N.,
A Framework for Object Recognition in a Visually Complex Environment and Its Application to Locating Address Blocks on Mail Pieces,
IJCV(2), No. 2, September 1988, pp. 125-152. BibRef 8809
Earlier:
Object Recognition in Structured and Random Environments: Locating Address Blocks on Mail Pieces,
AAAI-86(1133-1137). Application, Mail sorting. Related to the AI Magazine article. BibRef

Srihari, S.N.[Sargur N.], Shin, Y.C.[Yong-Chul], Ramanaprasad, V.[Vemulapati], Lee, D.S.[Dar-Shyang],
A System to Read Names and Addresses on Tax Forms,
PIEEE(84), No. 7, July 1996, pp. 1038-1049. 9607 BibRef
Earlier: SUNY BuffaloCEDAR-TR-94-2, October 1994. BibRef
Earlier:
Name and Address Block Reader System for Tax Form Processing,
ICDAR95(5-10). BibRef

Yeh, P.S., Antoy, S., Litcher, A., Rosenfeld, A.,
Address Location on Envelopes,
PR(20), No. 2, 1987, pp. 213-227.
WWW Version. BibRef 8700

Downton, A.C., Leedham, C.G.,
Preprocessing and presorting of envelope images for automatic sorting using OCR,
PR(23), No. 3-4, 1990, pp. 347-362.
WWW Version. 0401 BibRef
Earlier:
Pre-Processing of Envelope Images for Optical Character Recognition,
ICPR88(I: 27-31).
WWW Version.
IEEE Top Reference. BibRef

Downton, A.C., Guillevic, D.,
Syntactic and Contextual Post-Processing of Handwritten Addresses for Optical Character Recognition,
ICPR88(II: 1072-1076).
WWW Version.
IEEE Top Reference. BibRef 8800

Lee, C.K., Leedham, C.G.,
A New Hybrid Approach to Handwritten Address Verification,
IJCV(57), No. 2, May 2004, pp. 107-120.
WWW Version. 0402 BibRef

Jain, A.K.[Anil K.], Bhattacharjee, S.K.[Sushil K.],
Address block location on envelopes using Gabor filters,
PR(25), No. 12, December 1992, pp. 1459-1477.
WWW Version. 0401 BibRef
Earlier:
Address block location on envelopes using Gabor filters: supervised method,
ICPR92(II:264-267).
WWW Version. 9208 BibRef

Jain, A.K., Chen, Y.,
Address Block Location Using Color and Texture Analysis,
CVGIP(60), No. 2, September 1994, pp. 179-190.
WWW Version. BibRef 9409

Cohen, E., Hull, J.J., Srihari, S.N.,
Control-Structure for Interpreting Handwritten Addresses,
PAMI(16), No. 10, October 1994, pp. 1049-1055.
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. BibRef 9410

Cohen, E., Hull, J.J., Srihari, S.N.,
Understanding Handwritten Text in a Structured Environment,
PRAI(5), Nos. 1-2, 1991, pp. 221-264. BibRef 9100

Lee, S.W.[Seong-Whan], Kim, K.C.[Ki-Cheol],
Address Block Location on Handwritten Korean Envelopes by the Merging and Splitting Method,
PR(27), No. 12, December 1994, pp. 1641-1651.
WWW Version. BibRef 9412
Earlier:
Locating destination address block on handwritten Korean envelopes,
ICPR94(B:619-621).
WWW Version. 9410 BibRef

Tominaga, H.,
Special Issue on Postal Processing and Character Recognition,
PRL(14), No. 4, April 1993, pp. 257-354. Editor of the issue. BibRef 9304

Govindaraju, V., Shekhawat, A., Srihari, S.N.,
Interpretation of Handwritten Addresses in US Mail Stream,
FHR93(197-206). BibRef 9300

Gader, P.D., Keller, J.M., Cai, J.,
A Fuzzy Logic System for the Detection and Recognition of Street Number Fields on Handwritten Postal Addresses,
Fuzzy(3), No. 1, February 1995, pp. 83-96. BibRef 9502

Whichello, A.P., Yan, H.,
Fast Location of Address Blocks and Postcodes in Mail-Piece Images,
PRL(17), No. 11, September 16 1996, pp. 1199-1214. 9611 BibRef
Earlier:
Locating Address Blocks and Postcodes in Mail-Piece Images,
ICPR96(III: 716-720).
WWW Version. 9608(Univ. of Sydney, AUS) BibRef

Palumbo, P.W., Srihari, S.N.,
Postal Address Reading in Real-Time,
IJIST(7), No. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 370-378. 9612 BibRef

Srihari, S.N., Shin, Y.C., Ramanaprasad, V., Shi, Z.X.,
Document Image-Processing System for Name and Address Recognition,
IJIST(7), No. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 379-391. 9612 BibRef

El-Yacoubi, M.A.[Mounim A.], Gilloux, M.[Michel], Bertille, J.M.[Jean-Michel],
A Statistical Approach for Phrase Location and Recognition within a Text Line: An Application to Street Name Recognition,
PAMI(24), No. 2, February 2002, pp. 172-188.
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. 0202Constrained to addresses. Integrate knowledge sources, HMM for handwriting, use structure of the address and other redundancy. BibRef

Setlur, S.[Srirangaraj], Lawson, A.[Alfred], Govindaraju, V.[Venugopal], Srihari, S.[Sargur],
Large scale address recognition systems: Truthing, testing, tools, and other evaluation issues,
IJDAR(4), No. 3, 2002, pp. 154-169.
HTML Version. 0205 Evaluation, OCR. BibRef
Earlier: A1, A3, A4, A2:
Truthing, testing and evaluation issues in complex systems,
ICDAR01(1205-1214).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Soh, J.[Jung],
Computational method for document object locator combination,
IVC(22), No. 12, 1 October 2004, pp. 1015-1029.
WWW Version. 0409Finding address blocks. BibRef

Chatelain, C.[Clément], Heutte, L.[Laurent], Paquet, T.[Thierry],
A two-stage outlier rejection strategy for numerical field extraction in handwritten documents,
ICPR06(III: 224-227).
WWW Version. 0609 BibRef
And:
Segmentation-Driven Recognition Applied to Numerical Field Extraction from Handwritten Incoming Mail Documents,
DAS06(564-575).
WWW Version. 0602 BibRef

de Rijcke, M., Bojovic, M., Homan, W., Nuijt, M.,
Issues in developing a commercial parcel reading system,
ICDAR05(II: 1015-1019).
WWW Version. 0508 BibRef

Han, Z.[Zhi], Liu, C.P.[Chang-Ping], Yin, X.C.[Xu-Cheng],
A two-stage handwritten character segmentation approach in mail address recognition,
ICDAR05(I: 111-115).
WWW Version. 0508 BibRef

Kim, G.H.[Gyeong-Hwan], Lee, S.[Seokgoo], Shin, M.Y.[Mi-Young], Nam, Y.S.[Yun Seok],
Analysis of postal address fields for efficient encoding of Korean mail pieces,
ICDAR01(675-679).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Watanabe, T., Shimasaki, T.,
Estimation of home-address numbers on the basis of relationships and directions among house blocks,
ICDAR01(1245-1254).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Likforman-Sulem, L.,
Name block location in facsimile images using spatial/visual cues,
ICDAR01(680-684).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Leedham, G., Tan, W.K.[Wei Kei], Yap, W.L.[Weng Lee],
Handwritten country name identification using vector quantisation and hidden Markov model,
ICDAR01(685-688).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Roy, K., Vajda, S., Pal, U., Chaudhuri, B.B., Belaid, A.,
A system for Indian postal automation,
ICDAR05(II: 1060-1064).
WWW Version. 0508 BibRef

Vajda, S., Belaid, A.,
Structural information implant in a context based segmentation-free HMM handwritten word recognition system for Latin and Bangla script,
ICDAR05(II: 1126-1130).
WWW Version. 0508 BibRef

Kagehiro, T., Koga, M., Sako, H., Fujisawa, H.,
Address-block extraction by bayesian rule,
ICPR04(II: 582-585).
WWW Version. 0409 BibRef

Jang, S.I.[Seung Ick], Jeong, S.H.[Seon Hwa], Nam, Y.S.[Yun-Seok],
Classification of Machine-Printed and Handwritten Addresses on Korean Mail Piece Images Using Geometric Features,
ICPR04(II: 383-386).
WWW Version. 0409 BibRef

Jeong, S.H.[Seon Hwa], Jang, S.I.[Seung Ick], Nam, Y.S.[Yun-Seok],
Locating Destination Address Block in Korean Mail Images,
ICPR04(II: 387-390).
WWW Version. 0409 BibRef

Brakensiek, A., Rottland, J., Rigoll, G.,
Confidence measures for an address reading system,
ICDAR03(294-298).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311 BibRef

Brakensiek, A., Rottland, J., Rigoll, G.,
Handwritten address recognition with open vocabulary using character N-grams,
FHR02(357-362).
IEEE Top Reference. 0209 BibRef

Yonekura, E.A., Facon, J.,
Postal envelope segmentation by 2-D histogram clustering through watershed transform,
ICDAR03(338-342).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311 BibRef

Govindaraju, V., Tulyakov, S.,
Postal address block location by contour clustering,
ICDAR03(429-432).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311 BibRef

Tulyakov, S., Govindaraju, V.,
Probabilistic model for segmentation based word recognition with lexicon,
ICDAR01(164-167).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Aradhye, H.B., Myers, G.K., Herson, J.A.,
Image analysis for efficient categorization of image-based spam e-mail,
ICDAR05(II: 914-918).
WWW Version. 0508 BibRef

Nitz, K.C., Cruz, W., Aradhye, H., Shaham, T., Myers, G.K.,
An image-based mail facing and orientation system for enhanced postal automation,
ICDAR03(694-698).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311 BibRef

Menoti, D., Borges, D.L., Facon, J., de Souza Britto, Jr., A.[Alceu],
Segmentation of postal envelopes for address block location: an approach based on feature selection in wavelet space,
ICDAR03(699-703).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311 BibRef

Shridhar, M., Kimura, F., Truijen, B., Houle, G.F.,
Impact of lexicon completeness on city name recognition,
FHR02(513-518).
IEEE Top Reference. 0209 BibRef

Brakensiek, A., Rottland, J., Wallhoff, F., Rigoll, G.,
Adaptation of an address reading system to local mail streams,
ICDAR01(872-876).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Tomai, C., Allen, K.M., Srihari, S.N.,
Recognition of handwritten foreign mail,
ICDAR01(882-886).
WWW Version. 0109 BibRef

Mao, J.C.[Jian-Chang], Sinha, P.[Prasun], Mohiuddin, M.[Moidin],
A System for Cursive Handwritten Address Recognition,
ICPR98(Vol II: 1285-1287).
WWW Version. 9808 BibRef

Chen, H.[Hao], Hu, J.Y.[Jian-Ying], Sproat, R.[Richard],
E-Mail Signature Block Analysis,
ICPR98(Vol II: 1153-1156).
WWW Version. 9808 BibRef

Bartnik, D.[David], Phan, B.[Binh], Srihari, S.[Sargur], Govindaraju, V.[Venugopal],
Postal Reply Card Processing,
ICPR98(Vol I: 633-636).
WWW Version. 9808 BibRef

Nakajima, N., Tsuchiya, T., Kamimura, T., Yamada, K.,
Analysis of Address Layout on Japanese Handwritten Mail: A Hierarchical Process of Hypothesis Verification,
ICPR96(III: 726-731).
WWW Version. 9608(NEC Corporation, J) BibRef

Srihari, S.N., Kuebert, E.J.,
Integration of Hand-Written Address Interpretation Technology into the United States Postal Service Remote Computer Reader System,
ICDAR97(We-1C) 9708 BibRef

Yu, B., Jain, A.K., Mohiuddin, M.,
Address Block Location on Complex Mail Pieces,
ICDAR97(We-1C) 9708 BibRef

Wolf, M., Schmidt, W., Niemann, H.,
Fast Address Block Location on Handwritten and Machine Printed Mail-Piece Images,
ICDAR97(Poste) 9708 BibRef

Garibotto, G., Scagliola, C.,
Computer vision and image processing in postal automation,
CIAP97(II: 705-712).
WWW Version. 9709 BibRef

Mulgaonkar, P.G.,
Automatic Detection of Address Blocks on Irregular Mail Pieces,
CVPR86(672-674). BibRef 8600

Bruckner, T.[Thomas], Suda, P.[Peter], Block, H.U.[Hans Ulrich], Maderlechner, G.[Gerd],
In-House Mail Distribution by Automatic Address and Content Interpretation,
SDAIR96(XX) Siemens AG Corporate Research and Development. BibRef 9600

Tsuchiya, T., Nakajima, N., Kamimura, T.,
A method for determining address format in the automated sorting of Japanese mail,
CIAP95(551-556).
WWW Version. 9509 BibRef

Lii, J.[Jenchyou], Srihari, S.N.,
Use of character recognition and syntax in locating address paragraphs in complex documents,
ICPR94(B:374-376).
WWW Version. 9410 BibRef

Hoch, R., Hein, H.G., Kieninger, T.,
Using a partitioned dictionary for contextual post-processing of OCR-results,
ICPR94(B:274-278).
WWW Version. 9410 BibRef

Kalberg, R.J.N., Quint, G.H., Scholten, H.,
Automatic interpretation of Dutch addresses,
ICPR92(II:367-370).
WWW Version. 9208 BibRef

Lecolinet, E., Moreau, J.V.,
Off-line recognition of handwritten cursive script for the automatic reading of city names on real mail,
ICPR90(I: 674-676).
WWW Version. 9006 BibRef

Kabir, E., Downton, A.C., Birch, R.,
Recognition and verification of postcodes in handwritten and hand-printed addresses,
ICPR90(I: 469-473).
WWW Version. 9006 BibRef

Long, S.J., d'Amato, D.P., Sack, M.,
OCR in the United States Postal Service: Present Status and Future Needs,
ICPR84(945-947). BibRef 8400

Chapter on OCR, Document Analysis and Character Recognition Systems continues in
Engineering Drawings, Hand Drawings Analysis .