Text extraction from scene images by character appearance and structure modeling

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 182-194

  Yi, Chucai ^a,b   Tian, Yingli ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Character appearance; Character identification; Scene image; Structure component co occurrence; Structure difference; Structure modeling; Text detection

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE PROCESSING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CHARACTER APPEARANCE; CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION; CO-OCCURRENCE; SCENE IMAGE; STRUCTURE DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE MODELING; TEXT DETECTION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84885371608     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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