Adaptive page segmentation for color technical journals' cover images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 855-877

  Chen, Wei Yuan ^a   Chen, Shu Yuan ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Block classification; Color quantization; Complex background; Document processing; Page segmentation; Text extraction

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ADAPTIVE PAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD; COLOR CLASSIFICATION METHOD; TEXT EXTRACTION METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032138774     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00062-6     Document Type: Article

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