Restoration of old documents with genetic algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Rivero;Rafael Vidal;Julián Dorado;Juan R. Rabuñal;Alejandro Pazos

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. A Coruña, Fac. Informatica, A Coruña, Spain;Univ. A Coruña, Fac. Informatica, A Coruña, Spain;Univ. A Coruña, Fac. Informatica, A Coruña, Spain;Univ. A Coruña, Fac. Informatica, A Coruña, Spain;Univ. A Coruña, Fac. Informatica, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EvoWorkshops'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Applications of evolutionary computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Image recognition is a problem present in many real-world applications. In this paper we present an application of genetic algorithms (GAs) to solve one of those problems: the recovery of a deteriorated old document from the damages caused by centuries. This problem is particularly hard because these documents are affected by many aggresive agents, mainly by the humidity caused by a wrong storage during many years. This makes this problem unaffordable by other image processing techniques, but results show how GAs can succesfully solve this problem.