Repulsive attractive network for baseline extraction on document images

Oztop E., Mulayim A., Atalay V., Yarman-Vural F.

SIGNAL PROCESSING, cilt.75, sa.1, ss.1-10, 1999 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 75 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 1999
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00220-5
  • Dergi Adı: SIGNAL PROCESSING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-10
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: baseline, repulsive attractive network, Hough transform, energy minimization, active model, CHARACTER-RECOGNITION
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper describes a new framework, called repulsive attractive (RA) network for baseline extraction on document images. The RA network is an energy minimizing dynamical system, which interacts with the document text image through the attractive and repulsive forces defined over the network components and the document image. Experimental results indicate that the network can successfully extract the baselines under heavy noise and overlaps between the ascending and descending portions of the characters of adjacent lines. The proposed framework is applicable to a wide range of image processing applications, such as curve fitting, segmentation and thinning. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.