Scale space binarization using edge information weighted by a foreground estimation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1180-1184

  Kleber, Florian ^a   Diem, Markus ^a   Sablatnig, Robert ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

degraded documents; Document Binarization; foreground estimation; scale space

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; BINARIZATION ALGORITHM; BINARIZATIONS; CARBON COPIES; DEGRADED DOCUMENTS; EDGE INFORMATION; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; INTEGRAL IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SCALE SPACES; SIZE DEPENDENT; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

EID: 82355186179     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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