Cleaning and enhancing historical document images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3708 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 681-688

  Kavallieratou, Ergina ^a   Antonopoulou, Hera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSTS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTATIONAL COST; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33646185245     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11558484_86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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