Enhancement and feature extraction for images of incised and ink texts

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 443-451

  Pan, Xiao Bo ^a,b   Brady, Michael ^a   Bowman, Alan K ^a   Crowther, Charles ^a   Tomlin, R S O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Mirada Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document processing; Incised and ink text; Phase congruency

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INK; LIGHTING; SGML; TEXT PROCESSING; WOOD;

DOCUMENT PROCESSING; HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; INCISED AND INK TEXT; PHASE CONGURENCY; TEXT STROKES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 1342329567     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.11.007     Document Type: Article

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