Detecting text in the real world

MM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 765-768

  Phan, Trung Quy ^a   Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

gradient vector flow; natural scene text; scene text detection; street view images; symmetry detection; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; NATURAL SCENES; SCENE TEXT; SYMMETRY DETECTION; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84871370897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393347.2396307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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