A new robust algorithm for video text extraction

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1397-1406

  Wong, Edward K ^a   Chen, Minya ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color segmentation; Scan line processing; Text detection; Video processing; Video text filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; VIDEOTEX;

TEXT LINE SEGMENTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037410629     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(02)00230-3     Document Type: Article

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