A two-state Markov chain model of degraded document images

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 467-470

  Sural, Shamik ^a   Das, P K ^b  

^a NIIT Limited   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Image degradation model; Markov chain; Model validation; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PIXELS;

DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGES; DERIVED PARAMETERS; IMAGE DEGRADATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; PARAMETER SPACES; STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES; TWO-STATE MARKOV CHAIN MODELS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0002119246     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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