Journal article icon

Journal article

Enhancement and feature extraction for images of incised and ink texts

Abstract:

This paper describes the image enhancement techniques that we have used to help historians read three kinds of writing tablets: ink, wooden stilus and lead curse tablet. The techniques include: homomorphic filtering to correct uneven illumination, high-pass filtering to remove shading caused by surface undulations, and a newer technique to remove the often substantial complicating factor of wood grain. A phase-based feature detector has been developed to detect text stroke. A description of t...

Expand abstract
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

Actions


Access Document


Authors


More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Research group:
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Research group:
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Research group:
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Image and Vision Computing Journal website
Volume:
22
Issue:
6
Pages:
443-451
Publication date:
2004-06-01
DOI:
ISSN:
0262-8856
Language:
English
Keywords:
Subjects:
UUID:
uuid:e5b11581-d913-412e-b1a3-46c1676ead35
Local pid:
ora:4430
Deposit date:
2010-11-12

Terms of use


Views and Downloads






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP