Spatial and spectral based segmentation of text in multispectral images of ancient documents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 813-817

  Lettner, Martin ^a   Sablatnig, Robert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DOCUMENTS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONTEXTUAL SPATIAL INFORMATION; GAUSSIAN PARAMETERS; IMAGING MODEL; LOW QUALITIES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPATIAL FEATURES; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STATE OF THE ART; TRAINING PHASE;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 71249105088     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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