A localization/verification scheme for finding text in images and video frames based on contrast independent features and machine learning methods

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-217

  Chen, Datong ^a   Odobez, Jean Marc ^a   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Content based Indexing; Image OCR; Support vector machine; Text detection; Video OCR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTILAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TEXT PROCESSING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTENT-BASED INDEXING; IMAGE OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT DETECTION; VIDEO FRAMES; VIDEO OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR);

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0842329847     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(03)00075-4     Document Type: Article

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