Title :
Pseudo 2-dimensional hidden Markov models for document restoration
Author :
Huggett, A.R. ; Fitzgerald, W.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
fDate :
11/2/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Ancient documents suffer from many types of degradation, ranging from dirt and staining to damage and fading. Also archaeological and historical texts are hand written. This article explains how hidden Markov models may be used in the image processing of these documents
Keywords :
archaeology; document image processing; hidden Markov models; history; humanities; image restoration; optical character recognition; HMM; ancient documents; archaeology; archeology; curation; damage; degradation; dirt; document restoration; fading; feature extraction; hand written; hidden Markov model; historical document; historical text; image processing; pseudo two dimensional model; restoration; staining;
Conference_Titel :
Document Image Processing and Multimedia Environments, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19951191
