Snap and translate using Windows Phone

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 809-813

  Du, Jun ^a   Huo, Qiang ^a   Sun, Lei ^a   Sun, Jian ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

augmented reality; camera based OCR; mobile translation; text detection; user interface

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH WORD; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT EXTRACTION; UI DESIGNS; USER EXPERIENCE;

AUGMENTED REALITY; USER INTERFACES;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 82355182371     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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