Statistical image differences, degradation features, and character distance metrics

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 146-153

  Smith, Elisa Barney ^a   Qiu, Xiaohui ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of RF Integration and Micro Assembly Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Binarization threshold; Degradation model; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATION THRESHOLD; CHARACTER IMAGES; CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; DEGRADATION MODEL; DISTANCE METRICS; IMAGE DEGRADATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL IMAGES;

HAMMING DISTANCE; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

PHOTOCOPYING;

EID: 84889600748     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-003-0117-9     Document Type: Article

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