We compare in this study two image restoration approaches for the pre-processing of printed documents: namely the Non-local Means filter and a total variation minimization approac...
Over the last decade, the availability of public image repositories and recognition benchmarks has enabled rapid progress in visual object category and instance detection. Today we...
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
This work addresses the problem of document image analysis, and more particularly the topic of document structure recognition in old, damaged and handwritten document. The goal of...
—We propose a new method for an effective removal of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a widely...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...
Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...