Restoration of archival documents using a wavelet technique

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1399-1404

  Tan, Chew Lim ^a,b   Cao, Ruini ^c   Shen, Peiyi ^d  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c #05 30 IMM Building   (Singapore)

^d AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bleed through; Canny edge detector; Denoising; Document image analysis; Image segmentation; Noise cancellation; Show through; Text extraction; Wavelet enhancement; Wavelet smearing

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS RESTORATION; CANNY EDGE DETECTOR; DENOISING; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFERING STROKES; NOISE CANCELLATION; TEXT EXTRACTION; WAVELET ENHANCEMENT; WAVELET SMEARING;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN MATCHING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0036808508     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1039211     Document Type: Article

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