Binarization of color character strings in scene images using K-means clustering and support vector machines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 274-278

  Wakahara, Toru ^a   Kita, Kohei ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

binarization of multicolored character strings; K means clustering; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; CHARACTER STRINGS; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DATA SETS; HSI COLOR SPACE; IMAGE DEGRADATION; K CLUSTER; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; SCENE IMAGE; SUPPORT VECTOR; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASPECT RATIO; COLOR;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 82355160913     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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