Hermite and Gabor transforms for noise reduction and handwriting classification in ancient manuscripts

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 9, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 101-122

  Eglin, Véronique ^a   Bres, Stéphane ^a   Rivero, Carlos ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Background noise reduction; Classification; Gabor filtering; Handwriting characterization; Hermite polynomial decomposition; Orientations signature; Patrimonial manuscripts; Similarity measure; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS; BACKGROUND NOISE REDUCTION; GABOR FILTERING; HANDWRITING CHARACTERIZATION; HERMITE POLYNOMIAL DECOMPOSITION; ORIENTATIONS SIGNATURE; PATRIMONIAL MANUSCRIPTS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34147099697     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-007-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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