An MRF model for binarization of natural scene text

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-16

  Mishra, Anand ^a   Alahari, Karteek ^b   Jawahar, C V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Binarization; GMM; Graph Cut; MRF

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GMM; GRAPH CUT; MRF; NATURAL SCENES; OBJECT SEGMENTATION; PIXEL LEVEL; WORD IMAGES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 82355164561     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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