Leveraging surrounding context for scene text detection

2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2264-2268

  Li, Yao ^a   Shen, Chunhua ^a   Jia, Wenjing ^b   Van Den Hengel, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

energy minimization; scene text detection; Surrounding context

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION THEORY;

BINARY LABELS; CHARACTER VARIATION; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; NATURAL IMAGES; PARAMETER-TUNING; SCENE TEXT; STATE OF THE ART; SURROUNDING CONTEXT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84890376945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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