A methodology for the separation of foreground/background in Arabic historical manuscripts using hybrid methods

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 605-609

  Boussellaa, Wafa ^a   Zahour, Abderrazak ^b   Alimi, Adel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

Arabic historical color manuscript image; Foreground background; K means; Light intensity normalisation; Maximum likelihood; Restoration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ARABIC HISTORICAL COLOR MANUSCRIPT IMAGE; FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND; K-MEANS; LIGHT INTENSITY NORMALISATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348835032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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