A new gradient based character segmentation method for video text recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 126-130

  Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote ^a   Bhowmick, Souvik ^a   Su, Bolan ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Gradient features; Video character extraction; Video character recognition; Video document analysis; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER BOUNDARIES; CHARACTER LEVEL; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; F-MEASURE; GRADIENT BASED; GRADIENT FEATURE; GRADIENT-BASED METHOD; INPUT VIDEOS; LOW RESOLUTION; MAX-MIN; RUN LENGTH; TEXT CLUSTER; TEXT LINES; TRECVID; VIDEO CHARACTERS; VIDEO DOCUMENTS; VIDEO FRAME; VIDEO IMAGE; VIDEO TEXT RECOGNITION; WORD IMAGES; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RESTORATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355187610     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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