Character location in scene images from digital camera

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2287-2299

  Wang, Kongqiao ^a   Kangas, Jari A ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL CAMERAS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL IMAGE;

EID: 0042199020     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00082-7     Document Type: Article

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