Interactive degraded document enhancement and ground truth generation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6815, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bal, G ^a   Agam, G ^a   Frieder, O ^a   Frieder, G ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degraded documents; Document degradation models; Document image analysis; Historical documents; Image analysis; Image enhancement

Indexed keywords

DEGRADED DOCUMENTS; DOCUMENT DEGRADATION MODELS; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149153826     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.767203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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