A simplified approach to the HMM based texture analysis and its application to document segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 993-1007

  Chen, Jia Lin ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directional texture features; Document segmentation; Hidden Markov model (HMM); Text textured background separation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DOCUMENT SEGMENTATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031248049     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8655(97)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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