A scheme for salt and pepper noise reduction and its application for OCR systems

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 351-360

  Premchaiswadi, Nucharee ^a   Yimgnagm, Sukanya ^b   Premchaiswadi, Wichian ^c  

^a DHURAKIJ PUNDIT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c SIAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Applied kFill; Image processing; KFill Algorithm; Median Filter; Noise reduction; OCR systems; Salt and Pepper noise

Indexed keywords

APPLIED KFILL; GRAY SCALE; MEDIAN FILTER; MEDIAN FILTER ALGORITHMS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SALT-AND-PEPPER NOISE; WINDOW SIZE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77950127873     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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