A Compliant Document Image Classification System Based on One-Class Classifier

Document image classification in a professional context requires to respect some constraints such as dealing with a large variability of documents and/or number of classes. Whereas most methods deal with all classes at the same time, we answer this problem by presenting a new compliant system based on the specialization of the features and the parametrization of the classifier separately, class per class. We first compute a generalized vector of features based on global image characterization and structural primitives. Then, for each class, the feature vector is specialized by ranking the features according a stability score. Finally, a one-class K-nn classifier is trained using these specific features. Conducted experiments reveal good classification rates, proving the ability of our system to deal with a large range of documents classes.

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