Character extraction from documents using wavelet maxima

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2825, Issue , 1996, Pages 1003-1015

  Hwang, Wen Liang ^a   Chang, Fu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

noise; optical character recognition; wavelet maxima

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BAYESIAN CRITERION; CHARACTER BOUNDARIES; CHARACTER EXTRACTION; CHARACTER IMAGES; FREE PARAMETERS; FRONT-END PROCESSING; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; NOISE; ORIGINAL IMAGES; OTHER APPLICATIONS; SALIENT FEATURES; THRESHOLDING METHODS; WAVELET MAXIMA;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 78751638351     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.255222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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