A Simple Approach for Text Segmentation in Images based on Curvelet Transform

• Main Authors: Faye, Ibrahima, Jeoti, Varun, Doma, Mustafa
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering; QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7874/1/10-TextSegmCurvelet-ICIAS-KL_1.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7874/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Abstract-Text segmentation in image has become an active research area since recent decades. In this paper we present an efficient simple method to extract text regions from images possibly with complex background. The proposed method is to apply curvelet transform on an image to decompose it in...