Hierarchical content classification and script determination for automatic document image processing

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2483-2500

  Chi, Zheru ^a   Wang, Qing ^a,b   Siu, Wan Chi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Background thinning; Content classification; Cross correlation; Document image processing; Kolmogorov complexity; Neural networks; Page segmentation; Script determination

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PAGE SEGMENTATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0141863195     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00128-6     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. A. Dengel, Initial learning of document structure, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1993, pp. 86-90.
2. Yu B. Jain A. A genetic system for form dropout IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 18 1996 1127-1134
3. Nagy G. Seth S. Viswanathan M. A prototype document image analysis system for technical journals Computer 25 1992 10-22
4. B. Yu, A. Jain, M. Mohiuddin, Address block location on complex mail pieces, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm, Germany, 1997, pp. 897-901.
5. B. Yu, Automatic Understanding of symbol-connected diagrams, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, 1995, pp. 803-806.
6. R. Haralick, Document image understanding: Geometric and logical layout, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, 1994, pp. 385-390.
7. Jain A. Bhattacharjee S. Text segmentation using gabor filters for automatic document processing Mach. Vision Appl. 5 1992 169-184
8. Jain A. Zhong Y. Page segmentation using texture analysis Pattern Recognition 29 1996 743-770
9. Jain A. Karu K. Learning texture discrimination masks IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 18 1995 195-205
10. Y. Tang, H. Ma, D. Liu, C. Suen, A new approach to document analysis based on modified fractal signature, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montreal, Canada, 1995, pp. 567-570.
11. D. Doermann, Page decomposition and related research, Proceedings of the Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, Bowie, 1995, pp. 39-55.
12. Wahl F. Wang K. Casey R. Block segmentation and text extraction in mixed text/image documents Comput. Vision Graphics Image Process. 20 1982 375-390
13. J. Fisher, S. Hinds, K. D'Amato, Rule-based system for document image segmentation, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Atlantic City, 1990, pp. 567-572.
14. Wang D. Srihari S. Classification of newspaper image blocks using texture analysis Comput. Vision Graphics Image Process. 47 1989 327-352
15. Yamashita A. Amano T. Hirayama Y. Itoh N. Katoh S. Mano T. Toyokawa K. Document recognition system and its applications IBM J. Res. Dev. 40 1996 341-352
16. J. Panye, T. Stonham, D. Patel, Document segmentation using texture analysis, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, 1994, pp. 380-382.
17. E. Lebourgeois, Z. Bublinski, H. Emptoz, A fast and efficient method for extracting text paragraphs and graphics from un-constrained documents, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, The Hague, 1992, pp. 272-276.
18. N. Amamoto, S. Torigoe, Y. Hirogaki, Block segmentation and text area extraction of vertically/horizontally written document, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1993, pp. 739-742.
19. J. Ha, R.M. Haralick, I.T. Phillips, Recursive X-Y cut using bounding boxes of connected components, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 2, Montreal, Canada, 14-16 August 1995, pp. 952-955.
20. K. Kise, O. Yanagida, S. Takamatsu, Page segmentation based on thinning of background, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, Vienna, Austria, 1996, pp. 788-792.
21. J. Sauvola, M. Pietikainen, Page segmentation and classification using fast feature extraction and connectivity analysis, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 2, Montreal, Canada, 1995, pp. 1127-1131.
22. S. Imade, S. Tatsuta, T. Wada, Segmentation and classification for mixed text/image documents using neural network, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1993, pp. 930-934.
23. Kong J. Chi Z. Image classification using Kolmogorov complexity measure with randomly extracted blocks IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. E81-D 11 1998 1239-1246
24. D. Chetverikov, J. Liang, J. Komuves, R.M. Haralick, Zone classification using texture features, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 1996, pp. 676-680.
25. R. Sivaramakrishnan, I.I. Phillips, J. Ha, S. Subramanium, R.M. Haralick, Zone classification in a document using the method of feature vector generation, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 2, Montreal, Canada, 14-16 August 1995, pp. 541-544.
26. C. Gonzalez Rafael E. Woods Richard Digital Image Processing 1992 Addison-Wesley Reading, MA
27. L. O'Gorman, R. Kasturi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995.
28. Lam L. Lee S.-W. Suen C.Y. Thinning methodologies-A comprehensive survey IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 14 9 1992 869-885
29. Kolmogorov A.N. Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information Prob. Inf. Trans. 1 1965 1-7
30. Kaspar F. Schuster H.G. Easily calculable measure for the complexity of spatial-temporal patterns Phys. Rev. A 36 2 1987 842-848
31. Lempel A. Ziv J. On the complexity of finite sequences IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 22 1 1976 75-81
32. Wolfram S. Computation theory of cellular automata Commun. Math. Phys. 96 1984 15-57
33. Strouthopouls C. Papamarkos N. Text identification for document image analysis using a neural network Image Vision Comput. 16 1998 879-896
34. Chu K. Chi Z. Siu W. A neural network approach for language separation of document images Chin. J. Electron. 7 1998 381-386