Document analysis issues in reading optical scan ballots

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-112

  Lopresti, Daniel ^a   Nagy, George ^b   Smith, Elisa Barney ^c  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Boise State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; FILE FORMATS; GRAPHICAL TOOLS; MINNESOTA; REAL WORLD DATA; TRUTH DATA;

ELECTRONIC WARFARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77954973734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1815330.1815345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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