Detecting text in natural scenes with stroke width transform

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2963-2970

  Epshtein, Boris ^a   Ofek, Eyal ^a   Wexler, Yonatan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA DEPENDENT; EXTENSIVE TESTING; IMAGE OPERATORS; IMAGE PIXELS; MULTISCALES; NATURAL IMAGES; NATURAL SCENES; TEXT DETECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 77955991043     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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