A seed-based segmentation method for scene text extraction

Proceedings - 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 262-266

  Bai, Bo ^a   Yin, Fei ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Color polarity; Gradient local correlation; Seed based segmentation; Semi supervised learning; Text extraction

Indexed keywords

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS; LOCAL CORRELATIONS; SCENE TEXT EXTRACTIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING (SSL); TEXT EXTRACTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84903715278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2014.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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