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2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Transition Thresholds for Binarization of Historical Documents
Abstract--This paper extends the transition method for binarization based on transition pixels, a generalization of edge pixels. This method originally computes transition threshol...
Marte Alejandro Ramírez-Ortegón, Raul Rojas
HYBRID
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Distributed Wombling by Robotic Sensor Networks
This paper proposes a distributed coordination algorithm for robotic sensor networks to detect boundaries that separate areas of abrupt change of spatial phenomena. We consider an ...
Jorge Cortés
ICPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Fast Seamless Skew and Orientation Detection in Document Images
Reliable and generic methods for skew detection are a necessity for any large-scale digitization projects. As one of the first processing steps, skew detection and correction has...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
On step sizes, stochastic shortest paths, and survival probabilities in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a simulation-based technique useful in solving Markov decision processes if their transition probabilities are not easily obtainable or if the probl...
Abhijit Gosavi
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming: Lessons from the field
Approximate dynamic programming is emerging as a powerful tool for certain classes of multistage stochastic, dynamic problems that arise in operations research. It has been applie...
Warren B. Powell