Document image enhancement using directional wavelet

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wang, Qian ^a   Xia, Tao ^b   Li, Lida ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a School of Computing   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DOCUMENT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENT;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042941775     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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