A robust video text extraction method for character recognition

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 87-96

  Hori, Osamu ^a   Mita, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

OCR; Text portion extraction; Video image processing; Videotext recognition

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SIGNAL CONVERSION PROCESSING; TEXT PORTION EXTRACTION; VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING; VIDEOTEXT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 22544475606     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10148     Document Type: Article

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