Correlation filter: An accurate approach to detect and locate low contrast character strings in complex table environment

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1639-1644

  Li, Yi ^a   Wang, Zhiyan ^a   Zeng, Haizan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Graphics recognition; Pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CORRELATION THEORY; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHARACTER STRINGS; COMPUTER PRINTED CHARACTERS; CORRELATION FILTER; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; GRAPHICS RECOGNITION; PATTERN ANALYSIS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 9244259693     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.117     Document Type: Article

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