Automatic text location in images and video frames

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2055-2076

  Jain, Anil K ^a   Yu, Bin ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic text location; Connected component analysis; Image database; Multivalued image decomposition; Video indexing; Web search

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATIC TEXT LOCATION; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; IMAGE DATABASE INDEXING; MULTIVALUED IMAGE DECOMPOSITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032317553     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00067-3     Document Type: Article

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