Automated borders detection and adaptive segmentation for binary document images

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 737-741

  Le, Daniel X ^a   Thoma, George R ^a   Wechsler, Harry ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up approach; document processing; page borders; segmentation; smearing algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY IMAGES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADAPTIVE SEGMENTATION; BINARY DOCUMENT IMAGE; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; OBJECTS SEGMENTATION; PAGE BORDERS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898815744     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.547266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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