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This paper presents an application of Genetic Programming (GP) to solve one problem in the field of image processing. This problem is the recovery of a deteriorated old document from the damages caused by centuries. This document was affected by many aggresive agents, mainly by the humidity caused by a wrong storage during many years. This makes this problem particularly hard and unaffordable by other image processing techniques. Recent works have shown how Genetic Algorithms is a technique suitable for this task, but in this paper it will be shown how to obtain better results with GP.
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Rivero, D., Rabuñal, J.R., Dorado, J., Pazos, A. (2004). Using Genetic Programming for Character Discrimination in Damaged Documents. In: Raidl, G.R., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24653-4_36
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