A robust split-and-merge text segmentation approach for images

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1002-1005

  Zhan, Yaowen ^a   Wang, Weiqiang ^a   Gao, Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

SPLIT-AND-MERGE TEXT SEGMENTATION; TEXT BLOCKS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34047239827     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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