A stroke filter and its application to text localization

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-122

  Jung, Cheolkon ^a   Liu, Qifeng ^b   Kim, Joongkyu ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

A stroke filter; Text information extraction; Text localization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TEXT PROCESSING; TEXTURES; WAVE FILTERS;

A STROKE FILTER; COMPLEX BACKGROUNDS; STROKE FILTERS; TEXT INFORMATION EXTRACTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; TEXT LOCALIZATIONS; TEXTURE FEATURES; VIDEO IMAGES;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 56049114009     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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