Adaptive degraded document image binarization

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 317-327

  Gatos, B ^a   Pratikakis, I ^a,b   Perantonis, S J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Degraded document images; Local adaptive binarization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE BINARIZATION; PARAMETER TUNING;

DEGRADATION; LIGHTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 29144457647     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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