Robust text detection in natural images with edge-enhanced maximally stable extremal regions

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2609-2612

  Chen, Huizhong ^a   Tsai, Sam S ^a   Schroth, Georg ^b   Chen, David M ^a   Grzeszczuk, Radek ^c   Girod, Bernd ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

connected component analysis; maximally stable extremal regions; Text detection

Indexed keywords

CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT DATABASE; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; MAXIMALLY STABLE EXTREMAL REGIONS; NATURAL IMAGES; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LINES;

DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863052045     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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