Script and language identification in noisy and degraded document images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-24

  Shijian, Lu ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Association rules; Classification; Clustering; Document analysis; Language identification; Script identification; Shape

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CHARACTER EXTREMUM POINTS; DOCUMENT DEGRADATION; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36448990082     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1158     Document Type: Article

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