Feature representations for scene text character recognition: A comparative study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 907-911

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

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

coding pooling; dictionary of visual words; feature descriptors; Global HOG; performance evaluation; scene text character recognition; text feature representation

Indexed keywords

CODING-POOLING; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; GLOBAL HOG; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCENE TEXT; TEXT FEATURE; VISUAL WORD;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889571755     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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