RSLDI: Restoration of single-sided low-quality document images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3355-3364

  Farrahi Moghaddam, Reza ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes modeling; Classifiers; Degradation modeling; Document enhancement and restoration; ICA; Nonlinear model; PDE based image processing

Indexed keywords

BAYES MODELING; DEGRADATION MODELING; DOCUMENT ENHANCEMENT AND RESTORATION; ICA; NONLINEAR MODEL; PDE-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DEGRADATION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RESTORATION;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 68249106109     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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