2DVTE: A two-directional videotext extractor for rapid and elaborate design

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1496-1510

  Tsai, Tsung Han ^a   Chen, Yung Chien ^a   Fang, Chih Lun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Extraction; Localization; Seed filling; Text detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEED; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEOTEX;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; CHINESE TEXTS; DETECTION METHODS; DUAL MODES; EDGE INFORMATIONS; EXISTING METHODS; EXTRACTION METHODS; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; HORIZONTAL EDGES; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOCALIZATION; LOW COMPLEXITY; MULTI FRAMES; NON-TEXT REGIONS; SEED FILLINGS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT REGIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTIONS; VERTICAL EDGES; VIDEO FRAMES; VIDEO INDEXING; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 62349113827     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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