Efficient Logo Extraction Method using Mountain Function in Gridding Technique

Abstract

Document processing is an important area of image processing field. The paper presents a new technique for the extraction of logo/trademark images from the documents like receipts, bills, faxes and letters. The simple technique presented uses a gridding method along with mountain function to extract the desired logo images. The technique can extract multiple logos from a document. For checking the performance of the method a new logo database has been formed. The assembled database is the first most comprehensive database present on the internet.