In the frame of a Unified Messaging System, a crucial task of the system is to provide the user with key information on every message received, like keywords reflecting the object...
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for document image binarization. The proposed method is mainly based on the combination of several stateof-the-art binarization methodo...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...
Many document images are rich in color and have complex background. To detect text from them, a standard approach utilizes both color and binary information. This often leads to t...
Stop word detection is attempted in this work in the context of retrieval of document images in the compressed domain. Algorithms are presented to identify text lines and words an...
In this paper, we address the problem of discovering the 3D shape of a book surface from the shading information in a scanned document image. This shapefrom-shading problem is cha...