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ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text
Measuring the similarity between documents and queries has been extensively studied in information retrieval. However, there are a growing number of tasks that require computing th...
Donald Metzler, Susan T. Dumais, Christopher Meek
ICPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Finding Text in Natural Scenes by Figure-Ground Segmentation
Much past research on finding text in natural scenes uses bottom-up grouping processes to detect candidate text features as a first processing step. While such grouping procedures...
Huiying Shen, James Coughlan
DICTA
2003
14 years 10 months ago
Two-Level Image Segmentation Based on Region and Edge Integration
Abstract. This paper introduces a two-level approach for image segmentation based on region and edge integration. Edges are first detected in the original image using a combinatio...
Qing Wu, Yizhou Yu
ICIP
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
An entropy based segmentation algorithm for computer-generated document images
This paper presents an efficient compression-oriented segmentation algorithm for computer-generated document images. In this algorithm, a document image is represented in a block-...
Lijie Liu, Yan Dong, Xiaomu Song, Guoliang Fan
PCM
2005
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
A Robust Text Segmentation Approach in Complex Background Based on Multiple Constraints
In this paper we propose a robust text segmentation method in complex background. The proposed method first utilizes the K-means algorithm to decompose a detected text block into ...
Libo Fu, Weiqiang Wang, Yaowen Zhan