Integral ratio: A new class of global thresholding techniques for handwriting images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 761-768

  Solihin, Yan ^a   Leedham, C G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

NATIVE INTEGRAL RATIO (NIR); QUADRATIC INTEGRAL RATIO (QIR);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032669051     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.784289     Document Type: Article

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