Publication Details
Web Page Element Classification Based on Visual Features
page segmentation, preprocessing, classification, visual features, visual blocks
When applying the traditional data mining methods to World Wide Web documents,
the typical problem is that a normal web page contains a variety of information
of different kinds in addition to its main content. This additional information
such as navigation, advertisement or copyright notices negatively influences the
results of the data mining methods as for example the content classification. In
this paper, we present a method of interesting area detection in a web page. This
method is inspired by an assumed human reader approach to this task. First, basic
visual blocks are detected in the page and subsequently, the purpose of these
blocks is guessed based on their visual appearance. We describe a page
segmentation method used for the visual block detection, we propose a way of the
block classification based on the visual features and finally, we provide an
experimental evaluation of the method on real-world data.
@inproceedings{BUT33776,
author="Radek {Burget} and Ivana {Burgetová}",
title="Web Page Element Classification Based on Visual Features",
booktitle="1st Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems ACIIDS 2009",
year="2009",
pages="67--72",
publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
address="Dong Hoi",
isbn="978-0-7695-3580-7"
}