Using shape and layout information to find signatures, text, and graphics

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 88-110

  Hobby, John D ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

BAIRD LANGUAGE-FREE LAYOUT ANALYSIS SYSTEM; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034298285     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2000.0868     Document Type: Article

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