Low quality document image modeling and enhancement

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 183-201

  Moghaddam, Reza Farrahi ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion method; Defect modeling; Document enhancement; Document image processing

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; RESTORATION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION METHOD; DEFECT MODELING; DEFECT MODELS; DEGRADATION MODELS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DOCUMENT ENHANCEMENT; DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING; DOCUMENT IMAGES; LOW QUALITIES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; PHYSICAL DEFECTS; RESTORATION METHODS; REVERSE DIFFUSIONS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

EID: 63349091624     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-008-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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