Scene text segmentation via inverse rendering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 457-461

  Zhou, Yahan ^a   Feild, Jacqueline ^a   Learned Miller, Erik ^a   Wang, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CHANGES; INVERSE RENDERING; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPECULAR HIGHLIGHT; TEXT IMAGES; TEXT RECOGNITION; TEXT SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SOURCES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889606587     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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