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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Comparison of Some Thresholding Algorithms for Text/Background Segmentation in Difficult Document Images
A number of techniques have previously been proposed for effective thresholding of document images. In this paper two new thresholding techniques are proposed and compared against...
Graham Leedham, Yan Chen, Kalyan Takru, Joie Hadi ...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Historical Document Image Enhancement Using Background Light Intensity Normalization
This paper presents a new background light intensity normalization algorithm suitable for historical document images. The algorithm uses an adaptive linear function to approximate...
Venu Govindaraju, Zhixin Shi
CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Video Matting Using Learnt Image Priors
Video matting, or layer extraction, is a classic inverse problem in computer vision that involves the extraction of foreground objects, and the alpha mattes that describe their op...
Nicholas Apostoloff, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
ICAPR
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Character Extraction from Interfering Background - Analysis of Double-Sided Handwritten Archival Documents
The sipping of ink through the pages of certain double-sided handwritten documents after long periods of storage poses a serious problem to human readers or OCR systems. This pape...
Chew Lim Tan, Ruini Cao, Qian Wang, Peiyi Shen
MVA
2002
188views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptive Background Estimation for Object Tracking
2 Adaptive Background Model Tracking people has received considerable attention by computer vision researchers. Interest is motivated by the broad range of potential applications s...
Ryunosuke Itoh, Yoshio Iwai, Masahiko Yachida