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ICPR
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Statistical-Based Approach to Word Segmentation
Thispaper presents a text word extraction algorithm that takes a set of bounding boxes of glyphs and their associated text lines of a given document andpartitions the glyphs into ...
Yalin Wang, Robert M. Haralick, Ihsin T. Phillips
PCM
2010
Springer
156views Multimedia» more  PCM 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
A New Text Detection Algorithm for Content-Oriented Line Drawing Image Retrieval
Abstract. Content retrieval of scanned line drawing images is a difficult problem, especially from real-life large scale databases. Existing algorithms don’t work well due to th...
Zhenyu Zhang, Tong Lu, Feng Su, Ruoyu Yang
ICIAP
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Greedy Algorithm for Local Contrast Enhancement of Images
Abstract. We present a technique that achieves local contrast enhancement by representing it as an optimization problem. For this, we first introduce a scalar objective function th...
Kartic Subr, Aditi Majumder, Sandy Irani
CVPR
2009
IEEE
1666views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 2009»
16 years 11 months ago
From Contours to Regions: An Empirical Evaluation
We propose a generic grouping algorithm that constructs a hierarchy of regions from the output of any contour detector. Our method consists of two steps, an Oriented Watershed Tran...
Pablo Arbelaez, Michael Maire, Charless C. Fowlkes...
EGITALY
2006
15 years 5 months ago
SVG Vectorization by Statistical Region Merging
In this paper a novel algorithm for raster to vector conversion is presented. The technique is mainly devoted to vectorize digital picture maintaining an high degree of photoreali...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...