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				LAMP Seminar

		Language and Media Processing Laboratory
			   Conference Room 4406
			   A.V. Williams Building
			   University of Maryland
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			Tues, October 13, 1998 1 pm

				John D. Hobby
			(Joint work with Tin Kam Ho)

			      LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES

				   ABSTRACT

	Proper display and accurate recognition of document 
	images are often hampered by degradations caused by 
	poor scanning or transmission conditions.  We propose 
	a method to enhance such degraded document for better 
	display quality and recognition accuracy.  The essence 
	of the method is in finding and averaging bitmaps of 
	the same symbol that are scattered across a text page.  
	Outline descriptions of the symbols are then obtained 
	that can be rendered at arbitrary resolution.

	This talk will explain the algorithm and show how it 
	performs on fax images and how it can improve OCR 
	recognition accuracy.

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	Please send email to denise@cfar.umd.edu for additional 
	information. 

      Seminar Series Schedule: http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/LAMP