Historical document image segmentation using background light intensity normalization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5676, Issue , 2005, Pages 167-174

  Shi, Zhixin ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Document analysis; Historical handwritten document image; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE BINARIZATION ALGORITHMS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGE; IMAGE NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 21944445381     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.585545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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