A Technique for Fuzzy Document Binarization

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 152-156

  Papamarkos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binarization; Fuzzy Logic; Self Organized Neural Networks; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

BINARIZATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141761254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502208.502210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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