Thanks for your reply! I'm not sure if people are working on this right now, but would it be possible for me to work on an implementation of the Stroke Width Transform for text detection? I read the paper today and tried putting in a little work on it after stumbling upon it in the open issues. I was a little flustered when I realized that converting my image to dtype uint8 for the rank filter made it difficult to get clear results. But I'd really love to take this a lot further, if possible. Regards Raunaq On Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:50:50 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

Hi Raunaq

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Raunaq Vohra <ronv...@gmail.com<javascript:>

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I have never really contributed to an open-source project, so I'm very green (in fact, just finished with a minor bugfix, putting up a pull request soon), but I'm very eager to learn and I hope I can do so - in whatever capacity - over the next few months. At the very least, I hope to contribute more actively to this project and meet like-minded people.

We're always very glad to have new and motivated people on board.

My proposal for this year's GSoC is to implement image segmentation

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algorithms like the graph cut and normalized cut algorithms. I have a fair idea about the normalized cut method through a paper (Segmenting Point Sets, Yamazaki, Natarajan, Bai & Hasmann, University of California, Davis) and Shi & Malik's Eigenvector method and will study more about the others as well.

There's quite a bit of interest in implementing image segmentation algorithms, so I suggest also having a backup project idea. The ideas on the wiki page are not the only feasible ones--so use them as guidelines, but feel free to suggest others.

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I hope to find a mentor who can guide me with this. I would really appreciate it if someone could help with the same as I'm a little foggy about whom I should speak with.

The mentors for this year's GSoC will be Emmanuelle Gouillart, Johannes Schönberger, Tony Yu and myself, along with any other interested members of the team. This mailing list is the right place to discuss project proposals.

Thanks for your bug-fix PR. It looks like that one was already done by Johannes, but fortunately there are plenty of others where that came from :)

Regards Stéfan