Morphological text extraction from images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1978-1983

  Hasan, Yassin M Y ^a   Karam, Lina J ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEXT PROCESSING;

FIXED GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; MORPHOLOGICAL TEXT EXTRACTION; OPTIMAL GLOBAL THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034314942     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.877220     Document Type: Article

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