Robust line detection methods

  • Authors:
  • Costin-Anton Boiangiu;Bogdan Raducanu

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • ICAI'08 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on International Conference on Automation and Information
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Line Detection is an important problem that arises in automatic content conversion systems (among other domains). Such a system is used to generate digital documents from hard copies of books, newspapers, etc. Given a black and white image, usually obtained from a scanning device, our task is to identify groups of pixels which form horizontal or vertical lines. There are various techniques used to solve this problem. In this paper we analyze a common approach (using the Hough transform), introduce a new method and compare the results.