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Structured diagrams are very prevalent in many document types. Most people who need to create such diagrams use structured graphics editors such as Microsoft Visio. Structured graphics editors are extremely powerful and expressive but they can be cumbersome to use. We have shown through extensive timing experiments that structured diagrams drawn by hand will take only about 10% of the time it takes...
Image segmentation has attracted the attention of researcher for many decades. Different approaches have been developed in order to find the solution in many different segmentation situations. In this paper we propose a novel edge detection approach aimed to generate useful information to achieve segmentation. The proposed method is based on analysis of the information provided by the time matrix...
The process of segmenting images is one of the most critical ones in automatic image analysis whose goal can be regarded as to find what objects are presented in images. Artificial neural networks have been well developed. First two generations of neural networks have a lot of successful applications. Spiking neuron networks (SNNs) are often referred to as the 3rd generation of neural networks which...
Kernel k-means is an extension of the standard k-means clustering algorithm that identifies nonlinearly separable clusters. In order to overcome the cluster initialization problem associated with this method, in this work we propose the global kernel k-means algorithm, a deterministic and incremental approach to kernel-based clustering. Our method adds one cluster at each stage through a global search...
Pulse-coupled neuron networks (PCNN) can be efficiently applied to image segmentation. However, the performance of segmentation depends on the suitable PCNN parameters, which are obtained by manual experiment, and the effect of the segmentation needs to be improved for images with noise. In this paper, dynamic mechanism based PCNN(DMPCNN) is brought forward to simulate the integrate-and-fire mechanism,...
In this paper, we study the major modules of on-line handwritten chemical expressions recognition. We propose a novel algorithm that combines two separate methods to segment expressions, one of which is based on structural information and the other on partial recognition. The algorithm improves the traditional algorithm at the stage of recognition, which consists of a substance recognizer and a character...
Automated 3D lung modeling involves analyzing 2D lung images and reconstructing a realistic 3D model of the lung. This paper presents a review of the existing works on automatic formation of 3D lung models from 2D lung images. A common framework for 3D lung modeling is proposed. It consists of eight components: image acquisition, image pre-processing, image segmentation, boundary creation, image recognition,...
In this paper, we present an artificial neural network (ANN) architecture for segmenting unconstrained handwritten sentences in the English language into single words. Feature extraction is performed on a line of text to feed an ANN that classifies each column image as belonging to a word or gap between words. Thus, a sequence of columns of the same class represents words and inter-word gaps. Through...
Segmentation of the surgeonpsilas hand movements during the surgery into more primitive parts and recognition of those parts using Kohonen map is discussed in present paper. Main advantages of the proposed approach are that it allows to take into account dynamical characteristics of the hand movements and exclude probability of human error in building etalon segmentation. Ability to recognize current...
This paper presents a novel segmentation algorithm for offline cursive handwriting recognition. An over-segmentation algorithm is introduced to dissect the words from handwritten text based on the pixel density between upper and lower baselines. Each segment from the over-segmentation is passed to a multiple expert-based validation process. First expert compares the total foreground pixel of the segmentation...
Video scene classification and segmentation are fundamental steps for multimedia retrieval, indexing and browsing. In this paper, a robust scene classification and segmentation approach based on support vector machine (SVM) is presented, which extracts both audio and visual features and analyzes their inter-relations to identify and classify video scenes. Our system works on content from a diverse...
In the paper, we present an approach of image processing analysis to extract flowchart information from digital imagery. Firstly, flowchart imagery is processed to extract the text components and then extract the geometrical shapes components. We analyze text, and various geometrical shapes present in flowchart and carry out a variety of processes such as image segmentation, shape description, text...
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