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ICSC 1995: Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics pp 522–523Cite as

Image analysis for dating of old manuscripts

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Abstract

This paper presents an application of digital image processing to historical sciences. A major tool for dating old undated documents are watermarks found in the paper. Hardcopies of the watermarks are scanned, preprocessed, improved and contrast enhanced by adaptive digital filtering methods for printing, storing in an image database, and extracting the watermark as a set of strokes from the image. For extraction, a semiautomatical procedure is suggested. The extraction result is a short sequence of cubic spline curves representing the watermark fully and allowing to select identical or similar watermarks from the existing database.

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  1. Institute of Information Processing, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19/2, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Emanuel Wenger

  2. Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 Bolshoij Karetny Str., GSP-4, 101447, Moscow, Russia

    Viktor N. Karnaukhov & Nikolai S. Merzlyakov

  3. Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Postgasse 7-9/4/3, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Alois Haidinger

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  1. Emanuel Wenger
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  2. Viktor N. Karnaukhov
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  3. Alois Haidinger
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  4. Nikolai S. Merzlyakov
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Roland T. Chin Horace H. S. Ip Avi C. Naiman Ting-Chuen Pong

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Wenger, E., Karnaukhov, V.N., Haidinger, A., Merzlyakov, N.S. (1995). Image analysis for dating of old manuscripts. In: Chin, R.T., Ip, H.H.S., Naiman, A.C., Pong, TC. (eds) Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics. ICSC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60697-1_155

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