Automatic character detection and segmentation in natural scene images

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science A

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-71

  Zhu, Kai Hua ^a   Qi, Fei Hu ^a   Jiang, Ren Jie ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaboost; Attentional cascade; NLNiblack decomposition method; Text detection and segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OBJECT RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

ADABOOST ALGORITHMS; ATTENTIONAL CASCADE; NLNIBLACK DECOMPOSITION METHOD; TEXT DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33847284972     PISSN: 10093095     EISSN: 18621775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2007.A0063     Document Type: Article

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