Automatic text detection for mobile augmented reality translation

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 48-55

  Petter, Marc ^a   Fragoso, Victor ^b   Turk, Matthew ^b   Baur, Charles ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALSE ALARMS; MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; SCENE TEXT; SMART PHONES; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT REGION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO STREAMS;

ALGORITHMS; AUGMENTED REALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; VIDEO STREAMING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84856660607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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