Retrieval and indexing in multimedia databases has been an active topic both in the Information Retrieval and computer vision communities for a long time. In this paper we propose...
Semantic analysis of a document collection can be viewed as an unsupervised clustering of the constituent words and documents around hidden or latent concepts. This has shown to i...
A great number of documents are scanned and archived in the form of digital images in digital libraries, to make them available and accessible in the Internet. Information retriev...
In this paper, we formulate the image matting as one of solving energy minimization problems. Our approach has the following advantages. First, the matte estimation is modeled usin...
Abstract—This paper presents an adaptive algorithm for preprocessing document images prior to binarization in character recognition problems. Our method is similar in its approac...