Shock Filters for Character Image Enhancement and Peeling

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Cheriet

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a generalized shock modelfor the enhancement and restoration of degradedgray-level character images. This model is a quasi-linearhyperbolic partial differential equation withdiscontinuous coefficients, based on a recently-publishedwork. The model was extended to peeling charactershapes with a uniform and centered width of value K.These processing tools may significantly improve thesubsequent stages of the character image recognitiontask. Both models have been tested on a set of gray-levelcharacter images of varying quality from the CEDARdatabase, and experimental results have proved theefficiency and effectiveness of such modeling.