Applying fast segmentation techniques at a binary image represented by a set of non-overlapping blocks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 1147-1151

  Gatos, B ^a   Papamarkos, N ^b  

^a Lambrakis Press Archives ^*  (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY IMAGES; BINS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FAST IMPLEMENTATION; MONOCHROME IMAGES; PROJECTION PROFILE; RECTANGULAR BLOCK; RUN LENGTH SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SKELETONIZATION; TIME GAIN;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0012034420     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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