Fast and robust text detection in images and video frames

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 565-576

  Ye, Qixiang ^a,d   Huang, Qingming ^b   Gao, Wen ^a,b   Zhao, Debin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Feature combination; Multiscale wavelet feature; SVM classification; Text detection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TEXT PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FEATURE COMBINATION; MULTISCALE WAVELET FEATURE; SVM CLASSIFICATION; TEXT DETECTION;

VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 17444417480     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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