Postal Address Block Location Using a Convolutional Locator Network
Ralph Wolf, John C. Platt · 1993
This paper demonstrates that using a CLN to find abstract features of an object, rather than locating the entire object, provides a reasonable amount of insensitivity to the shape and scale of the object. In particular, the completely identified address blocks in the final test set had aspect ratios which ranged from 1.3 to 6.1 and their absolute X and Y dimensions both varied over a 3:1 range. They contained anywhere from 2 to 6 lines of text