Eric Cosatto We developed a system for finding address blocks on mail pieces that can process four images per second. Besides locating the address block, our system also determines the writing style, handwritten or machine printed, and moreover, it measures the skew angle of the text lines and cleans noisy images. A layout analysis of all the elements present in the image is performed in order ...

In this paper, we propose to improve image decomposition algorithms in the case of noisy images. In [1, 9], the authors propose to separate structures, textures and noise from an image. Unfortunately, the use of separable wavelets shows some artefacts. In this paper, we propose to replace the wavelet transform by the contourlet transform which better approximate geometry in images. For that, we...

Compression of a noisy source is usually a two stage problem, involving the operations of estimation (denoising) and quantization. A survey of literature on this problem reveals that for the squared error distortion measure, the best possible compression strategy is to subject the noisy source to an optimal estimator followed by an optimal quantizer for the estimate. What we present in this pap...

The recent success of deep neural networks is powered in part by large-scale well-labeled training data. However, it is a daunting task to laboriously annotate an ImageNet-like dateset. On the contrary, it is fairly convenient, fast, and cheap to collect training images from the Web along with their noisy labels. This signifies the need of alternative approaches to training deep neural networks...

This paper empirically compares two algorithms for classifying remotely sensed images: The minimum-distance classifier and peer group pixels based spatial classifier. The minimum-distance classifier is a per-pixel classifier. The spatial classifier incorporates contextual information by using the average of the pixels from a peer group of each pixel and classifying this pixel into one of severa...

In this paper, a new method for edge detection in presence of impulsive noise based into the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) is presented. This method shows how the SVM can detect edge in an efficient way. The noisy images are processed in two ways, first reducing the noise by using the SVM regression and then performing the classification using the SVM classification. The results presente...

This paper introduces an image denoising algorithm based on generalized Srivastava-Owa fractional differential operator for removing Gaussian noise in digital images. The structures of n n× fractional masks are constructed by this algorithm. Experiments show that, the capability of the denoising algorithm by fractional differential-based approach appears efficient to smooth the Gaussian noisy i...

An adaptive decision based inverse distance weighted interpolation (DBIDWI) algorithm for the elimination of highdensity salt and pepper noise in images is proposed. The pixel is initially checked for salt and pepper noise. If classified as noisy pixel, replace it with an inverse distance weighted interpolation value. This interpolation estimates the values of corrupted pixels using the distanc...

A dual tree complex wavelet transform (DT -CWT)based directional interpolation scheme for denoising of noisy images is proposed . The problems of denoising and interpolation are modeled as to estimate the noiseless and missing samples under the same framework of optimal estimation. Initially, DT -CWT is used to decompose an input low-resolution noisy wage irito low and high frequency subbands. ...

Feature preserved enhancements are necessary in medical ultrasound images. The quality and important information present in ultrasound images are affected by speckle which makes the post processing difficult. A technique based on rational dilation wavelet transform (RADWT) is applied on medical images to enhance the quality of speckle noise affected images. A new family of wavelet transform is ...