We compare the properties of intensity and color edges in photographs of real scenes and paintings. We demonstrate that paintings contain significantly more color-only edges, wher...
—This paper presents a new method to split an image into chromatic and achromatic zones. The proposed algorithm is dedicated to document images. It is robust to the color noise i...
This paper presents a unified approach to colour image coding, content-based indexing, and retrieval for database applications. The binary space partitioning (BSP) tree, tradition...
—Compound images are a combination of text, graphics and natural image. They present strong anisotropic features, especially on the text and graphics parts. These anisotropic fea...
Books and magazines often contain pages containing audacious mixtures of color images and text. Our problem consists in coding the background colors of a such documents without wa...