The Image Book

Image Analysis for Historical Japanese Book Archives

This paper describes methods of image analysis for historical Japanese book archives with a dominant focus on character segmentation. The segmentation methodology includes stain and smear removal, binarization, character line extraction, and character extraction by region labeling with integration and separation techniques. The experimental results show that the proposed method can segment all ...

Book Review: The CDA Book

they have additional information on their patients’ health and clinical statuses. The information could be acquired directly from patients or electronically from other providers through healthcare information exchanges (HIE). In the latter case, a common language or standard is necessary for sending and receiving digital forms of clinical data among healthcare organizations. On February 12, 200...

The E-book vs. the ordinary book

The fast progress in information technology brings us to the point where we should analyze the position of a commercially printed paper book in the near future. One may state unequivocally that the printed book created by Gutenberg (1398-1468) has finished its role as a carrier of ideas and now it has no future, just as it was with the wonderfully illuminated fables written by monks in the mona...

Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover

Book Boundary Detection from Bookshelf Image Based on Model Fitting

Several systems based on bookshelf image analysis have been studied for automating bookshelf inspection in libraries and bookstores. In conventional systems, book boundaries are firstly detected for extracting each individual book by using some popular line detection technique, such as Hough transformation. Their detection accuracies, however, are sometimes insufficient. In this paper, we propo...