COCOCLUST: Contour-Based color clustering for robust binarization of colored text

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, CBDAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-17

  Kasar, Thotreingam ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BINARIZATION; BINARIZATIONS; COLOR CLUSTERING; COLOR CLUSTERS; CONTOUR INFORMATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; ORIGINAL IMAGES; REFINING STEPS;

CAMERAS; PIXELS;

COLOR;

EID: 84860807569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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