Color reduction for complex document images

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-26

  Nikolaou, Nikos ^a   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color reduction; Edge preserving smoothing; Mean shift; Text information extraction

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION);

CLUSTERING PROCEDURES; COLOR DOCUMENTS; COLOR HISTOGRAMS; COLOR REDUCTION; COLOR SPACES; COMPLEX DOCUMENTS; CONNECTED COMPONENTS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; EDGE MAPS; EDGE PRESERVING SMOOTHING; MEAN-SHIFT; PRE-PROCESSING STEPS; TEXT INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

COLOR;

EID: 61449196806     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: 10981098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ima.20174     Document Type: Article

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