Separation of overlapping and touching lines within handwritten arabic documents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5702 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 237-244

  Ouwayed, Nazih ^a   Belaïd, Abdel ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Arabic documents; Calligraph morphology; Handwriting line segmentation; Overlapping and Touching lines

Indexed keywords

ARABIC DOCUMENT; ARABIC DOCUMENTS; CALLIGRAPH MORPHOLOGY; HANDWRITING LINE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS; OVERLAPPING AND TOUCHING LINES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY;

SEPARATION;

EID: 70349303632     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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