Segmentation of text/image documents using texture approaches
Trygve Randen
and John Håkon Husøy
Høgskolen i Stavanger
P.O. Box 2557 Ullandhaug, N-4004 Stavanger, Norway
To appear in Working Papers from Høgskolen i Stavanger, 1997
Also submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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Abstract
A fast and flexible method for segmenting text and graphics of document
images is presented, assuming that text-regions have different texture
properties than non-text-regions.
As features we use measures of the local sub-band energies in the output of
a computationally efficient critically sampled filter bank.
First we develop an un-supervised approach, and we get good results,
but even better segmentation is desired.
We therefore extend our approach with a novel supervised segmentation scheme.
The experimental results from the supervised method show the expected
improvement over the results from the un-supervised method.