Scene text recognition and tracking to identify athletes in sport videos

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 521-545

  Messelodi, Stefano ^a   Modena, Carla Maria ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Athlete identification; Embedded text detection; Information extraction; Sport video analysis; Text reading; Text tracking

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; SPORT VIDEO; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT READING; TEXT TRACKING;

SPORTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874887652     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0878-y     Document Type: Article

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