Text segmentation in color images using tensor voting

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 671-685

  Lim, Jaeguyn ^a   Park, Jonghyun ^a   Medioni, Gérard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive median filter; Color component analysis; Mean shift based density estimation; Tensor voting; Text segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TENSORS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE MEDIAN FILTERS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; COLOR COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INTENSITY COMPONENTS; MEAN SHIFT-BASED DENSITY ESTIMATION; TENSOR VOTING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33847028010     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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