Text enhancement with asymmetric filter for video OCR

Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 192-197

  Chen, Datong ^a   Shearer, Kim ^a   Bourlard, Herve ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ASYMMETRIC FILTERS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; BINARIZATIONS; NEW FORMS; SUB-STRUCTURES; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT ENHANCEMENT; VIDEO OCR;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141695187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIAP.2001.957007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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