Extended character defect model for recognition of text from maps

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-88

  Pezeshk, Aria ^a   Tutwiler, Richard L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document image degradation model; Feature extraction; Hidden markov models; Text recognition

Indexed keywords

DEFECT MODEL; DOCUMENT IMAGE DEGRADATION; DOCUMENT IMAGE DEGRADATION MODEL; EXTENDED DEFECT; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; TEXT RECOGNITION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TRAINING SETS;

DEFECTS; DEGRADATION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954796113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSIAI.2010.5483913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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