A simplified approach to the HMM based texture analysis and its application to document segmentation

In this paper, we address a simplified approach to the HMM based texture analysis. The model complexity is reduced significantly by a simplified set of directional macro-masks and the stationary HMMs. The difficult problem of texture feature design is eased by our proposed scheme. Also, we successfully apply our scheme to a difficult document segmentation problem - text/textured background separation.

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