Removal of interfering strokes in double-sided document images

Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 16-21

  Tan, Chew Lim ^a   Cao, Ruini ^a   Shen, Peiyi ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Chee, Julia ^b   Chang, Josephine ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National Archives of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Canning; Detection algorithms; Filtering; Filters; Histograms; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Ink; Libraries; Writing

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FILTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INK; LIBRARIES; TECHNICAL WRITING;

DETECTION ALGORITHM; HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS; HISTOGRAMS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; IMAGE EDGE DETECTION; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; ORIENTATION FILTERS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 84949212753     PISSN: 21583978     EISSN: 21583986     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2000.895397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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