Text localization in natural images using stroke feature transform and text covariance descriptors

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1241-1248

  Huang, Weilin ^a,b,c   Lin, Zhe ^a   Yang, Jianchao ^a   Wang, Jue ^a  

^a ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Low level filter; stroke width transform; text component; text covariance descriptors

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; PIXELS;

BENCHMARK DATASETS; COMPONENT CLASSIFIERS; DESCRIPTORS; HEURISTIC PROCEDURES; LOW-LEVEL FILTER; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE WIDTHS; TEXT COMPONENT;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84896140531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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