A Laplacian approach to multi-oriented text detection in video

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 412-419

  Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote ^a   Phan, Trung Quy ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Connected component analysis; frequency domain processing; text detection; text orientation.

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; VIDEOTEX;

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; CONNECTED COMPONENT; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; FALSE-POSITIVE ELIMINATIONS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN PROCESSING; K - MEANS CLUSTERING; TEXT DETECTION; VIDEO TEXT DETECTION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650517819     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.166     Document Type: Article

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