Improved text-detection methods for a camera-based text reading system for blind persons

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 257-261

  Ezaki, Nobuo ^a   Kiyota, Kimiyasu ^b   Minh, Bui Truong ^c   Bulacu, Marius ^d   Schomaker, Lambert ^d  

^a TOBA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC TEXT RECOGNITION; FISHER'S DISCRIMINANT RATE (FDR); TEXT READING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 33947432823     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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