This talk give provide an overview concerning the main approaches of the literature concerning segmentations techniques for document analysis.

These methods will be discussed according to their context of utilization.

The outline of the presentation will be the following

1. Introduction : challenge related to document segmentation ; particularities in the context of mobile capture
2. Top down segmentation : XY cut,  Split & Merge, Run Length Smoothing algorithm, texture based approaches (probabilistic, geometric, frequential), Voronoi based approaches, autocorrelation based approaches
3. Bottom-up segmentation strategies  : Connected components based approaches
4. Hybrid and alternatives approaches : gradient based approaches, multi-resolution approaches;
5. Text - Graphic segmentation using alternatives approaches : keypoints based approaches
6. Context based approaches
7. Conclusion - discussion