Effectiveness of polynomial wavelets in text and image segmentation

Shulan Deng; Shahram Latifi; Emma Regentova

doi:10.1117/12.373500

22 December 1999 Effectiveness of polynomial wavelets in text and image segmentation

Shulan Deng, Shahram Latifi, Emma Regentova

Proceedings Volume 3967, Document Recognition and Retrieval VII; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373500
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Wavelet transforms have been widely used as effective tools in texture segmentation in the past decade. Segmentation of document images, which usually contain three types of texture information: text, picture and background, can be regarded as a special case of texture segmentation. B-spline wavelets possess some desirable properties such as being well localized in time and frequency, and being compactly supported, which make them a good approach to texture analysis. In this paper, cubic B-spline wavelets are applied to document images; thereafter, each texture is featured by several regional and statistical characteristics estimated at the outputs of high frequency bands of spline wavelet transforms. Then three-means classification is applied for classifying pixels which have similar features. We also examine and evaluate the contributions of different factors to the segmentation results from the viewpoints of decomposition levels, frequency bands and feature selection, respectively.

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Shulan Deng, Shahram Latifi, and Emma Regentova "Effectiveness of polynomial wavelets in text and image segmentation", Proc. SPIE 3967, Document Recognition and Retrieval VII, (22 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373500

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