An Automatic Performance Evaluation Protocol for Video Text Detection Algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 498-507

  Hua, Xian Sheng ^a   Wenyin, Liu ^b   Zhang, Hong Jiang ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; Video text detection

Indexed keywords

LOCATION ACCURACY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS; VIDEOTEXT DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; DEMODULATION; DESIGN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); METADATA; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TESTING;

VIDEOTEX;

EID: 2042449747     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.825538     Document Type: Article

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