Text localization in natural scene images using multiple classifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6937, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kozłowski, Adam ^a   Strumiłło, Paweł ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blind support; Natural scene image analysis; Text detection; Text localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; VIDEO STREAMING;

MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 43249085197     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.784775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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