Degraded Character Image Restoration Using Active Contours: A First Approach

Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 142-148

  Allier, Bénédicte ^a   Emptoz, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Character segmentation; Reconstruction of degraded character images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ACTIVE CONTOURS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0141650555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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