Developing better systems for document image analysis requires understanding errors, their sources, and their effects. The interactions between various processing steps are comple...
There is no blank to mark word boundaries in Chinese text. As a result, identifying words is difficult, because of segmentation ambiguities and occurrences of unknown words. Conve...
: Developing Ambient Intelligence applications is a very complex task since it implies dealing with low-level software and hardware resources. The use of a middleware platform may ...
In this article, we propose a special type of decision tree, called a decision cascade, for binarizing document images. Such images are produced by cameras, resulting in varying de...
In this paper, a comparative study of lossless compression algorithms is presented. The following algorithms are considered: UNIX compress, gzip, LZW, CCITT Group 3 and Group 4, J...