Stroke-model-based character extraction from gray-level document images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1152-1161

  Ye, Xiangyun ^b   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a,c   Suen, Ching Y ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Background removal; Binarization; Document image analysis; Local thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACKGROUND REMOVAL; BINARIZATION; CHARACTER EXTRACTION; GRAY-LEVEL DOCUMENT IMAGES; STROKE MODEL;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0035423892     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.935031     Document Type: Article

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