TY - GEN
T1 - Page segmentation using decision integration and wavelet packets
AU - Etemad, Kamran
AU - Doermann, David
AU - Chellappa, Rama
N1 - Funding Information:
The support of this research by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA Order No. A550), under contract MDA 9049-3C-7217, is greatfully acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1994 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - A new algorithm for layout-independent document page segmentation is suggested. Text, image and graphics regions in a document image are treated as three different "texture" classes. Soft local decisions on small blocks are made using wavelet packet based feature vectors. Segmentation is performed by propagating and integrating soft local decisions over neighboring blocks, within and across scales. The "uncertainties" associated with local decisions are reduced as more contextual evidence is incorporated in the process of decision integration. The majority, taken over weighted combined votes, determines the final decision. The suggested algorithm is based on parallel independent computations which have low complexity. It can also be applied to other signal and image segmentation tasks.
AB - A new algorithm for layout-independent document page segmentation is suggested. Text, image and graphics regions in a document image are treated as three different "texture" classes. Soft local decisions on small blocks are made using wavelet packet based feature vectors. Segmentation is performed by propagating and integrating soft local decisions over neighboring blocks, within and across scales. The "uncertainties" associated with local decisions are reduced as more contextual evidence is incorporated in the process of decision integration. The majority, taken over weighted combined votes, determines the final decision. The suggested algorithm is based on parallel independent computations which have low complexity. It can also be applied to other signal and image segmentation tasks.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85027243502
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
SP - 345
EP - 349
BT - Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Conference B
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Conference B: Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, ICPR 1994
Y2 - 9 October 1994 through 13 October 1994
ER -