Segmentation of curled textlines using active contours

DAS 2008 - Proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 270-277

  Bukhari, Syed Saqib ^a   Shafait, Faisal ^b   Breuel, Thomas M ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC WARFARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; MILITARY OPERATIONS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ART IMAGES; DEWARPING; DOCUMENT IMAGES; EXECUTION TIMES; NEW ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

EID: 57649158905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2008.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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