A conventional color histogram (CCH) considers neither the color similarity across different bins nor the color dissimilarity in the same bin. Therefore, it is sensitive to noisy i...
Abstract. In the research area of historical documents it is of high interest to reconstruct the process of the emergence of a historical typesetted document. Therefore, the chrono...
Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
In this note, improvements to the non-local means
image denoising method introduced in [2], [3] are presented.
The original non-local means method replaces a noisy pixel by
the ...
—In this paper, a novel Chinese character localization method is proposed for texts in advertising images. To deal with the texts with gradient color, a color clustering method b...
Face detection has many interesting applications such as a face recognition system, a surveillance system, and videolimage indexing system. In this paper, we propose a new method ...