Independent component analysis for document restoration

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-27

  Tonazzini, Anna ^a   Bedini, Luigi ^a   Salerno, Emanuele ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bleed through cancellation; Blind source separation; Degraded documents; Independent component analysis; Palimpsest restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444461514     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-004-0121-8     Document Type: Article

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