Document image segmentation using a two-stage neural network

Mohamed Nooman Ahmed; Brian E. Cooper; Shaun T. Love

doi:10.1117/12.382919

14 April 2000 Document image segmentation using a two-stage neural network

Mohamed Nooman Ahmed, Brian E. Cooper, Shaun T. Love

Proceedings Volume 3962, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382919
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new system to segment and label document images into text, halftone images, and background using feature extraction and unsupervised clustering. Each pixel is assigned a feature pattern consisting of a scaled family of differential geometrical invariant features and texture features extracted from the cooccurence matrix. The invariant feature pattern is then assigned to a specific region using a two-stage neural network system. The first stage is a self-organizing principal components analysis (SOPCA) network that is used to project the feature vector onto its leading principal axes found by using principal components analysis. Using the SOPCA algorithm, we can train the SOPCA network to project our feature vector orthogonally onto the subspace spanned by the eigenvectors belonging to the largest eigenvalues. By doing that we ensure that the vector is represented by a reduced number of effective features. The next step is to cluster the output of the SOPCA network into different regions. This is accomplished using a self-organizing feature-map (SOFM) network. In this paper, we demonstrate the power of the SOPCA-SOFM approach to segment document images into text, halftone, and background.

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Mohamed Nooman Ahmed, Brian E. Cooper, and Shaun T. Love "Document image segmentation using a two-stage neural network", Proc. SPIE 3962, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Image Processing V, (14 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382919

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