An algorithm for colour-based natural scene text segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7139 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-68

  Zeng, Chao ^a   Jia, Wenjing ^a   He, Xiangjian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

connected component analysis (CCA); k means clustering; natural scene text segmentation; segmentation evaluation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING OPERATION; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; CONNECTED COMPONENT; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; NATURAL SCENES; PUBLIC DATABASE; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; TEXT AREAS; TEXT IMAGES; TEXT RECOGNITION; VALIDATION METHODS;

CAMERAS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84860811713     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29364-1_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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