A hybrid text segmentation approach

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 510-513

  Li, Xiaojun ^a   Wang, Weiqiang ^a,b   Huang, Qingming ^a,b   Gao, Wen ^b,c   Qing, Laiyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Edge filter; Text segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLOR SIMILARITY; DIFFERENCE-BASED METHODS; EDGE FILTER; EDGE FILTERS; EDGE MAP; HEURISTIC RULES; NIBLACK; REGION INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SIMILARITY-BASED METHODS; TEXT SEGMENTATION; THRESHOLD METHODS; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES;

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70449556982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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