Style and branding elements extraction from businessweb sites
Limei Jiao, SukHwan Lim, Nina T. Bhatti, Yuhong Xiong, Jerry Liu · 2010
We describe a method to extract style and branding elements from multiple web pages in a given site for content repurposing. Style and branding elements convey the values of the site owners effectively and connect with the target prospects. They are manifested through logos, graphical elements, background color, font styles, font colors and other illustrations. Our method automatically extracts color and image elements appearing frequently and prominently on multiple pages throughout the site. We rely on a DOM tree matching method to obtain the frequency of re-occurring elements and use relative sizes and positions of elements to determine the type of elements. Note that approximate locations of these elements provide an added clue to the content repurposing engine as to where to place the elements in the repurposed document. The obtained results show that the proposed method can efficiently extract style and branding elements with high accuracy.