Image text detection using a bandlet-based edge detector and stroke width transform

BMVC 2012 - Electronic Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mosleh, Ali ^a   Bouguila, Nizar ^b   Ben Hamza, A ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; DETECTION SCHEME; EDGE DETECTORS; FEATURE VECTORS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; REMAINING COMPONENT; TEXT LOCALIZATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898455642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5244/C.26.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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