Improved directional morphological operations for separation of characters from maps/graphics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1389, Issue , 1998, Pages 35-47

  Luo, Huizhu ^a   Kasturi, Rangachar ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEPARATION;

EDGE IMAGE; FONT SIZE; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; MEMORY SPACE; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PROCESSING TIME; RUN LENGTH; SEPARATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84961318206     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64381-8_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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