A combined approach for the binarization of handwritten document images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-15

  Ntirogiannis, K ^a,b   Gatos, B ^b   Pratikakis, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Background estimation; Document image binarization; Document image pre processing; Inpainting

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND COMPENSATION; BACKGROUND ESTIMATION; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGES; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; INPAINTING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUILDING COMPONENTS;

EID: 84887423749     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2012.09.026     Document Type: Article

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