Improving the quality of degraded document images

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 340-349

  Kavallieratou, Ergina ^a   Stamatatos, Efstathios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSTS; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

BACKGROUND NOISE; DOCUMENT IMAGES; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33750945152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIAL.2006.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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