Rotation-Invariant Features for Multi-Oriented Text Detection in Natural Images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Yao, Cong ^a   Zhang, Xin ^b   Bai, Xiang ^a   Liu, Wenyu ^a   Ma, Yi ^c   Tu, Zhuowen ^c,d  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TEXT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84881169489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070173     Document Type: Article

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