Detection of artificial and scene text in images and video frames

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 431-446

  Anthimopoulos, Marios ^a   Gatos, Basilis ^a   Pratikakis, Ioannis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial text; Multimedia information retrieval; Natural scene images; Scene text; Text detection; Video OCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880642188     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-011-0237-7     Document Type: Article

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