: We review the singular value decomposition (SVD) and discuss some lesser-known applications of it that we find particularly interesting. We also discuss generalizations of the S...
In many practical applications, it turns out to be useful to use the notion of fuzzy transform: once we have functions A1(x) ≥ 0, . . . , An ≥ 0, with n∑ i=1 Ai(x) = 1, we c...
This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and...
When scanning a page with printing on both sides, the printing on the back-side often shows through in the scan of the front-side because the page is not completely opaque. This p...
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for document image binarization. The proposed method is mainly based on the combination of several stateof-the-art binarization methodo...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...