Automatic text segmentation and text recognition for video indexing

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-81

  Lienhart, Rainer ^a   Effelsberg, Wolfgang ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Character segmentation; OCR; Text recognition; Video content analysis; Video indexing; Video processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEMANTICS;

TEXT SEGMENTATION; VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0002202193     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005300050006     Document Type: Article

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