Resolving handwriting from background printing using photometric stereo

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1869-1879

  McGunnigle, G ^a   Chantler, M J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background removal; Document image analysis; Off line handwriting analysis; Photometric stereo; Preprocessing; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOMETRY;

HANDWRITING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037653694     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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