Text detection in street level images

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 519-533

  Fabrizio, Jonathan ^a   Marcotegui, Beatriz ^b   Cord, Matthieu ^c  

^a EPITA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY LRDE   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Image classification; Text detection; Text segmentation; TMMS; Toggle mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885836584     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-013-0329-7     Document Type: Article

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