Accurate text localization in images based on SVM output scores

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1295-1301

  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

Classifier fusion; SVM output score; Text line refinement; Text localization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REFINING;

CLASSIFIER FUSION; COLOR DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; CONSTANT GRADIENTS; GEOMETRIC KNOWLEDGE; GRAY INTENSITY; NEW APPROACHES; SVM OUTPUT SCORE; SVM(SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE); TEXT LINE REFINEMENT; TEXT LINES; TEXT LOCALIZATION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 67349177149     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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