Document binarisation using Kohonen SOM

IET Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-84

  Badekas, E ^a   Papamarkos, N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

DOCUMENT BINARISATION; INTEGRATED FUNCTION ALGORITHMS; PRINTED DOCUMENTS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34047234175     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr:20050311     Document Type: Article

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