Newspaper layout analysis incorporating connected component separation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 307-317

  Mitchell, Phillip E ^a,b   Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Image segmentation; Newspaper segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEWSPRINT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; NEWSPAPER SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0442296223     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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