Text detection from natural scene images: Towards a system for visually impaired persons

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 683-686

  Ezaki, Nobuo ^a   Bulacu, Marius ^b   Schomaker, Lambert ^b  

^a TOBA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCENE IMAGE; SYSTEM DESIGNS; TEXT DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10044237641     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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