Text detection in scene images using stroke width and nearest-neighbor constraints

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Srivastav, Apurva ^a   Kumar, Jayant ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; COLOR QUANTIZATIONS; COMPLEX BACKGROUNDS; COMPONENT METHODS; COMPONENT-BASED; EDGE-BASED; INTENSITY VALUES; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; SCENE IMAGES; TEXT DETECTIONS;

COLOR;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 63049130426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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