Segmentation of Postal Envelopes for Address Block Location: an approach based on feature selection in wavelet space
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This paper presents a segmentation algorithm based on feature selection in wavelet space. The aim is to automatically separate in postal envelopes the regions related to background, stamps, rubber stamps, and the address blocks. First, a typical image of a postal envelope is decomposed using Mallat algorithm and Haar basis. High frequency channel outputs are analyzed to locate salient points in order to separate the background. A statistical hypothesis test is taken to decide upon more consistent regions in order to clean out some noise left. The selected points are projected back to the original gray level image, where the evidence from the wavelet space is used to start a growing process to include the pixels more likely to belong to the regions of stamps, rubber stamps, and written area. Experiments are run using original postal envelopes from the Brazilian Post Office Agency, and here we report results on 440 images with many different layouts and backgrounds.
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