Chinese text location under complex background using Gabor filter and SVM

Neurocomputing

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2998-3008

  Yan, Jianqiang ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Gabor filter; OCR; SVM; Text location

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND REGION; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CHINESE TEXT; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DIFFERENT SCALE; GABOR FILTER; STROKE FEATURES; SVM; SVM CLASSIFICATION; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEXT LOCATION; TEXT REGION; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE IMAGE; TOPDOWN; VERTICAL LINES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING; TEXTURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; GABOR FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

EID: 80052951016     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.04.031     Document Type: Article

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