Vision-based Web Page Segmentation

The FitLayout library offers a suite of implemented web page segmentation algorithms along with a number of tools for their evaluation and further development. The goal of this thesis is to extend this suite by another of already existing algorithms. To meet this goal, the Cormier et al. algorithm was chosen and integrated into the FitLayout. The plausibility of its implementation against its publication has been duly verified. Its extensive evaluation was also carried out to determine its properties and behaviour under different circumstances, which revealed algorithm settings that improve the quality of its outputs on the tested data sample by up to 9.89 %. As a result of this thesis, the FitLayout library has been extended with a new web page segmentation algorithm, which can be used in further research in this area that can be supported with the results found in this thesis