Automatic thresholding of gray-level using multi-stage approach

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 493-497

  Wu, Sue ^a   Amin, Adnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; ENVELOPE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; LOCAL THRESHOLDING; MULTIPLE REGIONS; MULTISTAGE APPROACH; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TYPICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 84945915631     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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