A Bayesian framework for fusing multiple word knowledge models in videotext recognition

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Zhang, DongQing ^a   Chang, Shih Fu ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Information fusing; Multimodal recognition; Video indexing; Video OCR; Videotext recognition

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN MODEL; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; IMAGE INTERPOLATION; MULTIMODAL RECOGNITION; VIDEO INDEXING; VIDEOTEXT RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042941781     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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