Separating lines of text in free-form handwritten historical documents

Proceedings - Second International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 12-23

  Kennard, Douglas J ^a   Barrett, William A ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE LOCAL CONNECTIVITY MAP (ALCM); BINARIZED IMAGES; HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; MAX-FLOW GRAPH CUT ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750938499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIAL.2006.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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