Text extraction in mixed-type documents is a pre-processing and necessary stage for many document applications. In mixed-type color documents, text, drawings and graphics appear w...
Impression evidence in the form of shoe-prints are commonly found in crime scenes. A critical step in automatic shoe-print identification is extraction of the shoe-print pattern. ...
In this paper we present a new technique to extract layers in a video sequence. To this end, we assume that the observed scene is composed of several transparent layers, that their...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a methodology for harvesting information from large distributed repositories (e.g. large Web sites) with minimum user intervention. The methodol...
Fabio Ciravegna, Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Yori...
Information extraction approaches are heavily used to gather product information on the Web, especially focusing on technical product specifications. If requesting different sour...