A new Tsallis entropy-based thresholding algorithm for images of historical documents

DocEng'07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 32-34

  Mello, Carlos A B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Document processing; Entropy; Historical documents; Image segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERNET; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

DOCUMENT PROCESSING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGES; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; TSALLIS ENTROPY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 37849022724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1284420.1284430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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