Binarization of low-quality barcode images captured by mobile phones using local window of adaptive location and size

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 418-425

  Yang, Huijuan ^a   Kot, Alex C ^b   Jiang, Xudong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

barcode image binarization; Barcode image captured by mobile phones; uneven illumination; window with adaptive size and location

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND PIXELS; BACKGROUND REGION; BINARIZATIONS; EDGE PIXELS; FIXED SIZE; IMAGE BINARIZATION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LOW QUALITIES; MINIMUM DISTANCE; NON-UNIFORM ILLUMINATION; RECOGNITION RATES; SIZE VARIATION; WINDOW SIZE;

BAR CODES; LIGHTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84255187568     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2155074     Document Type: Article

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