Fast and effective text detection

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 969-972

  Li, Xiaojun ^a   Wang, Weiqiang ^a,b   Jiang, Shuqiang ^b   Huang, Qingming ^a,b   Gao, Wen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Stroke filter; SVM; Text detection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX BACKGROUND; PROJECTION PROFILE; SLIDING WINDOW; STROKE FILTER; SVM; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LINES; TEXT REGION; VISUAL CONTENT;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REFINING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 69949166236     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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