Gradient vector flow and grouping-based method for arbitrarily oriented scene text detection in video images

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1729-1739

  Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote ^a   Phan, Trung Quy ^b   Lu, Shijian ^c   Tan, Chew Lim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily oriented text detection; candidate text components (CTC); dominant text pixel; gradient vector flow (GVF); text candidates (TC); text components

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE TEXT COMPONENTS (CTC); GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; TEXT CANDIDATES (TC); TEXT COMPONENTS; TEXT DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

PIXELS;

EID: 84885615204     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2255396     Document Type: Article

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