Detection and recognition of text superimposed in images base on layered method

Neurocomputing

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-14

  Yan, Jianqiang ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade adaboost; FCM; Text location; Text recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COLOR; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

ADA BOOST CLASSIFIERS; COLOR CLUSTERING; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; FCM; RECOGNITION METHODS; TEXT LOCATION; TEXT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLOR; FUZZY SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TEXT LOCATION; TEXT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84896548424     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.12.070     Document Type: Article

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