T-HOG: An effective gradient-based descriptor for single line text regions

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1078-1090

  Minetto, Rodrigo ^a   Thome, Nicolas ^b   Cord, Matthieu ^b   Leite, Neucimar J ^c   Stolfi, Jorge ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Histogram of oriented gradients for text; Text classification; Text descriptor; Text detection

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; GRADIENT BASED; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS FOR TEXT; OUTDOOR SCENES; RECTANGULAR IMAGE; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT REGION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DETECTORS; GRAPHIC METHODS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84870246844     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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