Image binarization for end-to-end text understanding in natural images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 128-132

  Milyaev, Sergey ^a   Barinova, Olga ^a   Novikova, Tatiana ^a   Kohli, Pushmeet ^b   Lempitsky, Victor ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

natural scene binarization; text localization

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATION ALGORITHM; BINARIZATIONS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; IMAGE BINARIZATION; NATURAL IMAGES; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889606097     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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