Character string extraction from color documents

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1349-1365

  Hase, Hiroyuki ^a   Shinokawa, Toshiyuki ^b   Yoneda, Masaaki ^a   Y Suen, Ching ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b TOYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character string extraction; Color document; Color segmentation; Conflict resolution; Likelihood of a character string; Multi stage relaxation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

BINARY COLOR IMAGES; MULTI-STAGE RELAXATION;

PATTERN MATCHING;

RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035400737     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(00)00081-9     Document Type: Article

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