A novel approach for text detection in images using structural features

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3686, Issue PART I, 2005, Pages 627-635

  Tran, H ^a,b   Lux, A ^a   Nguyen, H L T ^b   Boucher, A ^c  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b International Research Centre Multimedia Information Communication and Applications Hanoi   (Viet Nam)

^c Institut de la Francophonie Pour l'Informatique   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

STRUCTURAL FEATURES; TEXT ANALYSIS SYSTEM; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT STRING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 27244453456     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11551188_69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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