Enforcing similarity constraints with integer programming for better scene text recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 73-80

  Smith, David L ^a   Field, Jacqueline ^a   Learned Miller, Erik ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SEARCH ENGINES;

ERROR REDUCTION; INTEGER PROGRAM; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; PROBABILITY MODELING; SCENE TEXT; SOFT CONSTRAINT; VIEWING CONDITIONS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80052874746     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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