Scene text detection via connected component clustering and nontext filtering

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2296-2305

  Koo, Hyung Il ^a   Kim, Duck Hoon ^b  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b Qualcomm Research Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CC clustering; connected component (CC) based approach; machine learning classifier; nontext filtering; scene text detection

Indexed keywords

CC CLUSTERING; CONNECTED COMPONENT; LEARNING CLASSIFIERS; NON-TEXT FILTERING; SCENE TEXT;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84876208085     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2249082     Document Type: Article

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