Lockheed Martin Corporation

Supreeth Hebbal

Frederic D Highland

Kurt P Kopchik

Timothy O Withum

Stephanie M Graham

Summer C Dasch

Dropping out of color form backgrounds from images of completed forms to obtain color form dropout images retaining only the respondent information. In one embodiment, a color form image processing method () includes retrieving () a template image, retrieving () a respondent image, registering () the images against one another to establish correspondence between pixels in the respondent and template images, dilating () the template image, and performing () a color form dropout including comparing () corresponding pixels in the respondent and dilated template images, and determining () whether to keep corresponding pixels by applying () a geometric solid threshold comparison to assess both color similarity and relative darkness, and removing () pixels from the respondent image based on such comparison.

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Eldersburg, MD, United States of America

Supreeth Hebbal