Adaptive fuzzy text segmentation in images with complex backgrounds using color and texture

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3691 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 756-765

  Gllavata, Julinda ^a   Freisleben, Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEXT PROCESSING;

OVERSEGMENTATION; TEXT PIXELS; TEXT SEGMENTATION (TS); VISUAL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33646139416     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11556121_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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