Fast correction of bleed-through distortion in grayscale documents by a blind source separation technique

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Tonazzini, Anna ^a   Salerno, Emanuele ^a   Bedini, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bleed through cancellation; Blind source separation; Grayscale document restoration; Independent component analysis

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OPACITY;

ANCIENT DOCUMENTS; BLEED-THROUGH CANCELLATION; GRAYSCALE DOCUMENT RESTORATION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 34249798718     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-006-0015-z     Document Type: Article

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