Adaptive shape prior for recognition and variational segmentation of degraded historical characters

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3348-3354

  Bar Yosef, Itay ^a   Mokeichev, Alik ^a   Kedem, Klara ^a   Dinstein, Itshak ^a   Ehrlich, Uri ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Degraded character recognition; Historical documents; Level set; Segmentation; Shape prior

Indexed keywords

DEGRADED CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; LEVEL SET; SEGMENTATION; SHAPE PRIOR;

LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PIXELS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 68249137020     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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