Handwritten text separation from annotated machine printed documents using Markov Random Fields

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Peng, Xujun ^a   Setlur, Srirangaraj ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a   Sitaram, Ramachandrula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Documents retrieval; Ink separation; Markov Random Field; Segmentation; Text identification

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PIXELS; SEPARATION; TEXT PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; DOCUMENTS RETRIEVAL; FOCUS OF RESEARCHES; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MULTIPLE WRITERS; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; TEXT IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874192959     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-011-0179-z     Document Type: Article

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