A morphological approach for text-line segmentation in handwritten documents

Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-24

  Papavassiliou, Vassilis ^a,b   Katsouros, Vassilis ^a   Carayannis, George ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MORPHOLOGY; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT IMAGE SEGMENTATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; HANDWRITING SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; LINE SEGMENTATION; LINE STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; PROCESSING MACHINES; RANK-ORDER FILTERING; TEXT LINES; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951701844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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