Real time image enhancement and segmentation for sign/text detection

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 993-996

  Haritaoglu, Esin Darici ^a   Haritaoglu, Ismail ^b  

^a Polar Rain Inc   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PRINTERS (COMPUTER); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

HIERARCHICAL CONNECTED COMPONENTS (HCC) ANALYSIS; PIXEL-BASED ALGORITHMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345171680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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