Hybrid approach to efficient text extraction in complex color images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 679-699

  Jung, Keechul ^a   Han, JungHyun ^b  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CAMShift; Connected component; Content based image indexing; Mean shift; Multi layer perceptron (MLP); Text localization; Texture; X Y recursive cut

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPLEX IMAGES; CONNECTED COMPONENT (CC); TEXT LOCALIZATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 1842759520     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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