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A Taxonomy for Noise in Images of Paper Documents - The Physical Noises

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Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2009)

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A taxonomy encompasses not only a classification methodology, but also an explicative theory of the phenomena that justify such classification. This paper introduces a taxonomy for noise in images of paper documents and details the Physical Noises according to the proposed taxonomy.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Rafael Dueire Lins

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Mohamed Kamel

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Aurélio Campilho

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Lins, R.D. (2009). A Taxonomy for Noise in Images of Paper Documents - The Physical Noises. In: Kamel, M., Campilho, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02611-9_83

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