Graphical Drop Caps Indexing

摘要

This paper presents a method for graphical drop caps indexing. Drop caps are extracted from old books. Finding a method classifying them according to styles defined by the historian is of considerable interest. The developed method is a statistical approach, where all possible patterns included in a pixel mask are processed in order to extract indexes that characterize the image. Then these indexes are used to classify a query drop cap by searching its most similar drop caps in the indexed base.