Decompose-threshold approach to handwriting extraction in degraded historical document images

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 239-244

  Yan, Chen ^a   Leedham, Graham ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUB-REGIONS; THRESHOLDING;

ALGORITHMS; DECOMPOSITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VECTORS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 18044384989     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2004.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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