Scene text extraction by superpixel CRFs combining multiple character features

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1034-1038

  Cho, Min Su ^a   Seok, Jae Hyun ^a   Lee, Seonghun ^a   Kim, Jin Hyung ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

character features; conditional random fields; scene text extraction; superpixels

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER FEATURE; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; INPUT IMAGE; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; PARAMETER LEARNING; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; SCENE TEXT; SUPERPIXELS; TEXT EXTRACTION; TRAINING IMAGE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 82355182298     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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