Beyond pixels and regions: A non-local patch means (NLPM) method for content-level restoration, enhancement, and reconstruction of degraded document images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-374

  Moghaddam, Reza Farrahi ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a  

^a Synchromedia Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Document image restoration and reconstruction; Document understanding; Non local methods

Indexed keywords

CONTENT LEVEL; DATA SETS; DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGES; DESCRIPTORS; DOCUMENT IMAGE RESTORATION; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; IMAGE DATA; INPUT IMAGE; LOW COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; MODIFIED GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NONLOCAL; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

RESTORATION;

EID: 77957990293     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.07.027     Document Type: Article

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