Text detection in natural scene images with user-intention

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2256-2259

  Wang, Liuan ^a   Katsuyama, Yutaka ^b   Fan, Wei ^a   He, Yuan ^a   Sun, Jun ^a   Hotta, Yoshinobu ^b  

^a Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co Ltd   (China)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

double edge symmetry; greedy CCs grouping; stroke width constraint; text detection

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; DETECTION STAGE; GREEDY CCS GROUPING; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; STROKE WIDTHS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT DETECTION IN NATURAL SCENES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84897819765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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