Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
7-2009
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.273
Abstract
The push toward voting via hand-marked paper ballots has focused attention on the limitations of current optical scan systems. Discrepancies between human and machine interpretations of ballot markings can lead to a loss of trust in the election process. In this paper, a style-based approach to ballot recognition is proposed in which marks are recognized collectively rather than in isolation. The consistency of a voter’s style is leveraged to improve the overall accuracy of the system. We compare style-based recognition to various kinds of singlet classifiers and show that it outperforms them by a substantial margin
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Publication Information
Xiu, Pingping; Lopresti, Daniel; Baird, Henry; Nagy, George; and Barney Smith, Elisa. (2009). "Style-Based Ballot Mark Recognition". 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009. ICDAR '09., 216-220.