Power-law transformation for enhanced recognition of born-digital word images

2012 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, SPCOM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kumar, Deepak ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

binarization; born digital image; power law transform; stroke width; word recognition

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; BORN-DIGITAL IMAGE; POWER-LAW; STROKE WIDTH; WORD RECOGNITION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84867722833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPCOM.2012.6290009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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