Kolmogorov Complexity-Based Ideas for Locating Text in Web Images

Authors

Martin Schmidt
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Luc Longpre, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

8-1999

Comments

UTEP-CS-99-32.

Published in: J. Ramirez-Angulo (ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 8-11, 1999, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Vol. 1, pp. 543-546.

Abstract

The gaining popularity of the World Wide Web increases security risks. Search tools monitor plain text in web pages, but search for text in graphical images is still difficult. For this search, we use the fact that the compressed images with text have different size than images without text.