A self-training learning document binarization framework

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3187-3190

  Su, Bolan ^a   Lu, Shijian ^b   Lim Tan, Chew ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Document image binarization; Image pixel classification; Self training learning framework

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND PIXELS; BINARIZATIONS; DATA SETS; DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGES; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; DOCUMENT IMAGES; IMAGE PIXEL CLASSIFICATIONS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; SELF-TRAINING; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

CLASSIFIERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

PIXELS;

EID: 78149487312     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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