Color clustering and its application in character location

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4875, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 645-650

  Wang, Kongqiao ^a   Kangas, Jari A ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligning and merging analysis (AMA); Character location; Color clustering; Optical character recognition (OCR)

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALIGNING AND MERGING ANALYSIS; CHARACTER LOCATION; COLOR CLUSTERING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036453266     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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