Restoration and segmentation of highly degraded characters using a shape-independent level set approach and multi-level classifiers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 828-832

  Moghaddam, Reza Farrahi ^a   Rivest Hénault, David ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR METHOD; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ANCIENT DOCUMENTS; APRIORI; CHARACTER IMAGES; DEGRADATION PROCESS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET APPROACH; MULTI-LEVEL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SHAPE INFORMATION; WORST CASE;

CLASSIFIERS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 71249153748     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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