A low complexity sign detection and text localization method for mobile applications

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 922-934

  Bouman, Katherine L ^a   Abdollahian, Golnaz ^b   Boutin, Mireille ^b   Delp, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile devices; sign detection; text detection; text localization; text segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CELLULAR PHONE; HAND HELD DEVICE; LOW COMPLEXITY; MEGA-PIXEL; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NATURAL IMAGES; SIGN DETECTION; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER SETS; ENERGY RESOURCES; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MOBILE DEVICES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052920376     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2154317     Document Type: Article

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