OTCYMIST: Otsu-Canny minimal spanning tree for born-digital images

Proceedings - 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 389-393

  Kumar, Deepak ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Binarization; Edge detection; Minimum spanning tree; Text localization; Text segmentation

Indexed keywords

AREA THRESHOLD; BINARIZATIONS; BOUNDING BOX; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DATA SETS; EDGE PIXELS; HEIGHT RATIO; IMAGE DATASETS; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT SEGMENTATION; TEXT STRING; VERTICAL SPLITTING; WORD LEVEL;

ASPECT RATIO; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862084423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2012.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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