VISIBILITY BASED DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF SEMI-TRANSPARENT BLOTCHES ON ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS

Vittoria Bruni, Andrew Crawford, Domenico Vitulano, Filippo Stanco

2006

Abstract

This paper focuses on a novel model for digital suppression of semi-transparent blotches, caused by the contact between water and paper of antique documents. The proposed model is based on laws regulating the human visual system and provides a fast and automatic algorithm both in detection and restoration. Experimental results show the great potentialities of the proposed model in solving also critical situations.

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  25. Figure 6: Top) Original image. Bottom) Detected blotches (black regions ) using the algorithm in section 2.1 and r = 12.
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Bruni V., Crawford A., Vitulano D. and Stanco F. (2006). VISIBILITY BASED DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF SEMI-TRANSPARENT BLOTCHES ON ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 64-71. DOI: 10.5220/0001371700640071


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Vittoria Bruni and Andrew Crawford and Domenico Vitulano and Filippo Stanco},
title={VISIBILITY BASED DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF SEMI-TRANSPARENT BLOTCHES ON ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={64-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001371700640071},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - VISIBILITY BASED DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF SEMI-TRANSPARENT BLOTCHES ON ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Bruni V.
AU - Crawford A.
AU - Vitulano D.
AU - Stanco F.
PY - 2006
SP - 64
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0001371700640071