A database of artificial urdu text in video images with semi-automatic text line labeling scheme

MMEDIA - International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 75-81

  Siddiqi, Imran ^a   Raza, Ahsen ^b  

^a BAHRIA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Artificial urdu text; Data set; Text detection; Text localization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL URDU TEXT; DATA SET; GROUND TRUTH DATA; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84875828481     PISSN: 23084448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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