Directed assistance for ink-bleed reduction in old documents

Zheng Lu, Zheng Wu, Michael S. Brown

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9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Ink-bleed interference is a serious problem that affects the legibility of old documents. Ink-bleed can be reduced using pixel classification based on user-supplied markup that labels examples of ink-bleed, foreground-ink, and background. The main challenge is ensuring that the user's markup sufficiently captures the characteristics of the document. This is particularly troublesome for old documents that can exhibit significant change within the same page. In this paper, we address this markup problem using a "directed assistance" approach in which the user provides a small amount of initial markup. The image is then classified and regions with low classification confidence are grouped and displayed to the user for another round of markup. The key idea is to direct the user to where markup is needed. In addition, local markup can be weighted in the classification algorithm to produce better results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2009
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages88-95
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781424439935
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009 - Miami, FL, United States
Duration: 20 Jun 200925 Jun 2009

Publication series

Name2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami, FL
Period20/06/0925/06/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering

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