Publication Type : Conference Proceedings
Publisher : Proceedings - 2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications
Source : Proceedings - 2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications, ICACC 2012
ISBN : 9780769547237
Keywords : Active contour model, Algorithms, Background noise, Binarizations, Character segmentation, Coherence-enhancing diffusion, Combined algorithms, Copying, Diffusion, Image segmentation, Nonlinear diffusion, Performance study, Printed documents, Segmentation accuracy
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Center : Computational Engineering and Networking
Department : Electronics and Communication
Verified : Yes
Year : 2012
Abstract : In this paper, we present the combined character segmentation algorithm based on the active contour model and nonlinear diffusion techniques. The active contour model is used to perform segmentation of printed characters. The coherence enhancing diffusion technique is proposed to smooth out artifacts and background noises without destroying the edges. The performance of the two character segmentation methods: i) the combined ACM-FGM and CED algorithm, and ii) the ACM-FGM algorithm have been validated using a large scale printed documents in Hindi, Malayalam and Telugu text. The combined algorithm achieves an average segmentation accuracy of 89.08% whereas the ACM-FGM algorithm alone had an average accuracy of 52.63%. The whole character segmentation process time is lesser than that of the ACM-FGM algorithm alone. Experiments show that the combined algorithm provides promising results under scanned documents with different font-size and fond-style characters, and the different artifacts and background noises caused by the aging of the paper and diffusion. © 2012 IEEE.
Cite this Research Publication : K. Syama, George, N., Sekhar, S., Neethu, C. S., Manikandan, M. S., and Dr. Soman K. P., “Performance study of active contour model based character segmentation with nonlinear diffusion”, Proceedings - 2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications, ICACC 2012. Cochin, pp. 118-121, 2012.