Decompose algorithm for thresholding degraded historical document images

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 702-714

  Chen, Y ^a   Leedham, G ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

DECOMPOSED ALGORITHMS; FEATURE VECTORS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 29144488990     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20045054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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