An improved component tree based approach to user-intention guided text extraction from natural scene images

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 383-387

  Sun, Lei ^a,b   Huo, Qiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; COLOR INFORMATION; COMPONENT TREE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; PERCEPTUAL COLOR SPACE; TEXT EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; FORESTRY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84889566255     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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