Text detection and restoration in natural scene images

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 504-513

  Ye, Qixiang ^a   Jiao, Jianbin ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Yu, Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Text detection; Text recognition; Text restoration

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HOMOGRAPHY; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT RECOGNITION; TEXT RESTORATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 35548992731     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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