Enhancement of historical printed document images by combining Total Variation regularization and Non-local Means filtering

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 351-363

  Likforman Sulem, Laurence ^a   Darbon, Jérôme ^b,c   Smith, Elisa H Barney ^d  

^a TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Inserm   (France)

^d Boise State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Document image enhancement; Historical documents; Image processing; Non local Means; Variational approach

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DEFECTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; DOCUMENT IMAGES; FILTER-BASED; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INTERMEDIATE IMAGE; NONLOCAL; NOVEL METHODS; PAPER AGING; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; TOTAL VARIATION; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951699430     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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