Extraction of signatures from check background based on a filiformity criterion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1425-1438

  Djeziri, Salim ^b   Nouboud, Fathallah ^b   Plamondon, Réjean ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Check processing; Filiformity; Lines extraction; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATED CHECK PROCESSING SYSTEMS; FILIFORMITY CRITERION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032187599     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.718483     Document Type: Article

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